Hinchingbrooke Park stab murder: Three arrested

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Sam Mechelewski, 20, from HuntingdonImage source, Cambridgeshire Police
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Detectives believe Sam Mechelewski was killed in a "targeted attack"

Two people arrested on suspicion of murdering a man and later released from custody have been re-arrested.

Sam Mechelewski, 20, from Huntingdon, was found dead in the town's Hinchingbrooke Park on 1 February. He died as a result of a stab wound.

A man from Chatteris who was released under investigation and a man from Brampton who was released with no further action have been re-arrested.

A third man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

The two murder suspects, both in their 20s, and the third man arrested, in his late teens, remain in custody in Peterborough.

Police divers, Hinchingbrooke
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Specialist divers from the Metropolitan Police searched for a weapon in a pond near to where the body was found

Sam Mechelewski as a child (left) and at his school promImage source, Cambs Police
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Childhood pictures of Sam Mechelewski were released by the family as part of an appeal

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