A 20-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder over the stabbing of a 33-year-old man in Blackbird Leys.

The victim was allegedly stabbed repeatedly in the stomach in the attack in Balfour Road on Saturday evening and is now in a critical but stable condition in Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital.

Abdul Ali Adan, of no fixed abode, was remanded in custody and will appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court today accused of attempted murder.