On the afternoon of Friday 17 December 2021, police were called with reports that 35-year-old Ben Entwistle had turned up at an address in Oaklyn Gardens, Shanklin, with a knife.
Entwistle had attended a funeral earlier that day before heading to a wake at Shanklin Football Club, where he became drunk and violent and got into physical altercations with a number of people.
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