A WOMAN has been charged with two counts of attempted murder by detectives investigating double stabbings in Hereford.

The 30-year-old was charged on Saturday in connection with the attacks and is due to appear before Peterborough Magistrates’ Court this morning.

The woman, who is from Peterborough, was detained shortly after two men were stabbed in the city on Tuesday, April 2.

Following her arrest, she was taken to a secure unit for mental health assessment before being rearrested last Wednesday by officers from Cambridgeshire, who then questioned her over the stabbings.

Gary Stretch, a 47-year-old man from Peterborough, has previously appeared before Hereford Magistrates’ Court in connection with the incidents, charged with encouraging or assisting in the commission of indictable offences, believing that one or more will be committed (under the Serious Crime Act 2007) and remanded into custody.

He was also charged with a burglary which took place at a house in Kington on the same day.

Three local men, all from Kington in Herefordshire, who were arrested over the knife attacks are believed to have had no direct involvement with the stabbings and were released without charge in relation to those offences.