Rochester and Strood MP Lauren Edwards urges people to avoid speculation following stabbing of soldier

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00:00The police have said it's an isolated incident, that's what they're treating it like at the moment

00:04and they aren't clear about the motive yet. They are still doing investigations so I think my

00:08focus is just on letting them get on and understand what's happened here and then obviously

00:13reassuring the community. We have had a really heightened police presence in the area which

00:19hopefully has reassured residents. The main message that I would like to get across today I think is

00:24that we don't know the motivation, the police are doing their investigation and speculation is

00:29really unhelpful and I think at the moment we should just be rallying behind the family,

00:33rallying behind the community which I know people in Brompton will do, I know they will

00:36do it in the armed forces and that really needs to be the focus rather than speculation.