STABBING SUSPECT IN HOSPITAL

Tributes paid to 'lovely' attack victim

- By BEN HASLAM, CONAILL CORNER & EMILY CARUBIA

A MAN arrested on suspicion of murder is in hospital after falling ill in police custody.

The 47-year-old man from Widnes was arrested on suspicion of murder and possession of a bladed article in a public place after a woman was stabbed to death in a shop in Bootle.

Police said yesterday he “fell ill soon after arrival into custody and is being assessed and treated at hospital.”

Merseyside Police were called to Stanley Road, near the junction with Wadham Road, shortly after 5.05pm on Friday, to reports of a domestic incident.

It had been reported a 44-year-old woman had sustained a stab wound to her torso after an assault inside Low Cost Food and Wine. Police attended the scene where they detained a man and seized a knife.