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andy-hughes
/// The text is somewhat misleading, it infers that each of the people involved stabbed the officer, whereas it appears that only of them did, and has been arrested. ///
Not misleading in the way you suggest Andy, since it does not state the age of the male arrested, he could have been one of the three boys.
But what is indeed misleading is the fact that the Guardian reports that "three boys and a girl in their late teens stabbed a plainclothes police officer three times".
/// Three boys and a girl in their late teens stabbed a plainclothes police officer three times as he was taking part in a planned operation in east London on Tuesday night, Scotland Yard has said. ///
Surely if four persons had stabbed a policeman, he would have been stabbed four times instead of three times.
Or am I missing something?