Two men charged after double fatal stabbing in Gosport (From Daily Echo)

Two men charged after double fatal stabbing in Gosport

5:00am Monday 6th July 2009 in

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Detectives have charged two people with murder following the fatal stabbing of two Hampshire men.

Matthew Stacey, 31, was found wounded in of Alma Street, Gosport, in the early hours of Friday morning. He was rushed to hospital where he later died.

Police were later called to a house in Alma Street, where the body of Richard Bateman, 45, was discovered.

Both men had suffered stab wounds.

Samuel Johnny Johnson, of Crosby Road, London and Andre Sampson, of Empress Street, Greater London, will appear at Portsmouth Magistrates Court this morning charged jointly with the murder of both men.

A 27 year old Gosport man who was also arrested has been released without charge.