Police officers have arrested a man on suspicion of assault after two men fought at Bolton Interchange on Friday night. An officer working for Transport for Greater Manchester was assaulted while dealing with he incident. Daniel Ward was waiting for a bus at Bolton Interchange when he witnessed the incident.
Speaking to The Bolton News, the 42-year-old from Swinton said: “It doesn’t bother me, it’s my son it concerns me about. “All them lads knocking about in there are all his age, and there’s big groups of them and stuff – if one of them’s got a knife in their pocket, I’ve seen it happen before.” Sign up to our newsletters to get the latest stories sent straight to your inbox.
Daniel raised concerns over the response from security officers on the scene. He said: “I worked on doors years back myself, I’ve seen it all happen in my time, but the way security works in there they just don’t..
. people shouldn’t be coming in thinking they can throw a punch. “If it was me that was in charge of it, they wouldn’t be coming in throwing a punch or taking a chance to do anything like that, because you’d make sure it was dealt with by police.
“No one had control of any of it at all.” Greater Manchester Police said it had made an arrest as a result of the incident, and is working with transport bosses to improve safety on the transport network. Follow The Bolton News on Facebook , Instagram , X (Twitter) , and TikTok .
A Greater Manchester Police spokesp.
