‘Gentle soul’ stabbed with screwdriver named and pictured

Jamie Chappell is fighting for his life after the stabbing (Picture: Facebook)

A man who was stabbed with a screwdriver on a building site is critically ill in hospital, his family have said.

Jamie Chappell, 25, was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver at Widham Gardens building site in Purton, near Swindon, on Thursday.

The stabbing was being treated as a suspected murder attempt but that is no longer the case.

James Denys, 36, of Ravensdale, East Wichel, has now been charged with Section 18 grievous bodily harm following what police are calling a ‘serious assault’.

Jamie’s family said he was ‘one of the kindest, most gentle souls you could ever meet’.

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