Police identified the victim as Roberts Buncis, 12.
On what would have been his 13th birthday, tributes have been flooding in to remember Roberts Buncis, a schoolboy who was murdered in Fishtoft near Boston this weekend,
The 14-year-old has been remanded and will appear at court on Monday morning, while a 19-year-old man, arrested on Sunday, remains in police custody.
Edgars Buncis and his son Roberts. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police
A Crowdfunder, set up on Sunday by Agnes Emsina, has currently raised over £11,500 to help cover the funeral costs for Roberts.
A target of £10,000 was set, but that was smashed just 12 hours after it was set up.
A tribute on the fundraiser says that Roberts comes from a single parent family, living with his dad Edgars, and so the money will help him during this difficult time.
Police cordoned off an area near Alcorn Green in Fishtoft. | Photo: The Lincolnite
The headteacher of Roberts’ school, Haven High Academy, issued a statement to honour the pupil.
Matthew Van Lier said:”Today (Monday, December 14) is an unbelievably sad day for Haven High and the wider community.
“Yesterday we were informed that a member of our academy had been taken away from his family and friends well before his time.
“To make the situation even worse, today he would have been celebrating his 13th birthday.
“He was a popular young man destined for a life of joy, happiness and success and today we should try to remember him in that way.
“We are all bound by a clear vision and set of values that create a synchronicity of commitment to learning and preparation for a future career of choice.
“Words cannot describe the shared sadness that we all feel today as the hopes and dreams of one of our students will never be realised.
“This news defies all belief, we all still expect him to walk around the corner with his friends, laughing and joking, plotting how to get away without completing his home learning and trying to remember what lesson to attend next.”
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones paid his own tribute on Monday morning, saying: “To see a boy of 14 charged with the murder of a 12-year-old here in Lincolnshire is shocking and tragic.
“Heart goes out to all those whose lives will now change forever.”
Commenters on The Lincolnite‘s story where the boy was named shared the grief as well as the shock of the situation.
Kirsty Balaam-Hiatt said: “This is devastating, I have a 12-year-old son, he’s a boy and I just could not imagine the pain the family must be going through. R.I.P Robert!”
Hannah Screaton added: “Absolutely heartbreaking. Thoughts and prayers to the parents of this wonderful boy.”
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Lincolnshire’s frontline police officers are being offered doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that are left over at the end of a day.
Lincolnshire Police’s force control room will be called each day with the offer of spare vaccines that weren’t used throughout the day.
This is due to the vaccine not being able to be stored overnight, which would otherwise waste the doses.
Rather than throw them away, the NHS will offer any leftover vaccine doses to local frontline response officers.
When officers are given the first dose, a date for the second dose is set.
Chief Inspector for the North and South Kesteven beat area, Phil Vickers, tweeted about the offers on Wednesday morning.
Great to see that vaccines are not being wasted in Lincs
At the end of the day, when it becomes clear there are doses left over which can’t be stored overnight, @FCR_Lincs are called, and local front-line Response Officers offered the Vaccine
A spokesperson for Lincolnshire Police said: “A small number of our staff were vaccinated earlier this week after being offered vaccines that we were told could not be used.”
A man in his 40s was injured after an industrial incident in Holbeach on Wednesday morning.
Emergency services, along with an air ambulance, attended the scene of the incident on Park Road, which was reported to police at 10.47am on January 20.
The road was closed just after 11.30am.
Emergency services and an air ambulance attended the scene. | Photo: Dennis Vink
Police said the man’s injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
No arrests have been made and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been notified.
Six in ten new COVID cases in Lincolnshire were with the new, more infectious variant in the first week of 2021.
The county council’s public health team said that by January 8, 59.2% of tests contained a variant of the virus — up from 36% in the last two weeks of 2020.
North East Lincolnshire’s latest epidemiology report says 50% of positive COVID tests contained the new variant in the first two weeks of January, up from 40% at the end of December.
The new strains of COVID-19 are believed to be up to 70% more transmissible than the first circulating form of the virus.
Professor Derek Ward, Lincolnshire County Council’s director for public health, said he expected the new variants to “push the old one out”.
“At some point in the future 100% or 98% of our cases will be the new variants,” he said.
“The key point is the new variants are out there in South Africa and Brazil, but the key messages stay the same.
“It is a stay at home lockdown and it doesn’t matter which one it is, you’re not going to get it if you don’t go out the door, and, if you are going to have to go outdoors then remember hands, face, space.”
Pfizer said that their vaccine is effective against one key mutation, called N501Y, found in both of the new variants spreading in Britain and South Africa.
Meanwhile, under 70s could begin receiving the vaccine this week, as more than 4 million doses have been administered, the government said.
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