SIX people across Essex and Suffolk have been arrested as part of the James Attfield murder investigation.
The 33-year-old was attacked earlier this year and stabbed over 100 times in Castle Park, off Guildford Road, in Colchester, at around 6am on Saturday, March 29.
He died a short time later from his wounds.
Today six people were arrested at houses in Colchester, Ipswich and Southend, two of these had been previously arrested during the police probe and were on bail.
The rearrested people included a 27-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man from Colchester.
Three others, a 25-year-old woman from Southend, an 18-year-old man of no fixed address, and a 57-year-old man from Colchester were arrested on suspicion of murder.
A 23-year-old woman from Ipswich was arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
All six people are being questioned by detectives at police stations across Essex and Suffolk and a number of properties in Suffolk and Essex are also been searched by police.
Two men, aged 33 of no fixed address, remain on police bail pending further enquiries until Wednesday, September 17, after also having been arrested in connection with James Attfield's murder.
