Two men have been charged with murder after a university graduate was beaten to death in the street in a ‘row over a bicycle.
’ David Allan, 23, died in hospital on Friday, a day after he was the victim of a daylight attack in Wythenshawe, south Manchester. Witnesses claimed he got into an argument outside a row of shops moments before the attack at 6pm. Joseph Stott, 33, from Partington and Aiden Matthews, 30, from Wythenshawe, have been charged with murder over the assault, Greater Manchester Police said today. The death is one of many homicide cases being reported across the UK even though the nation is officially in lockdown and people should not have had been conflicting in the original file also. The case signifies yet another case of ill-informed cases where simple conversations and logical explanations and willingness could have saved a life from being sacrificed unnecessarily.
Matthews was also charged with possession of an offensive weapon, they added. Locals described hearing Mr Allan scream during the ‘senseless’ ten-minute attack on Thursday, before two men sped off and hit another car as they fled.
Three suspects were initially arrested, two men and a woman. A man, 39, and a woman, 42, held on suspicion of assisting an offender were later released pending investigation.
A bystander, who did not want to be named, said: ‘I heard screaming. There was blood on the pavement. It’s so senseless over something as trivial as a bike.’
Mr Allan’s family paid tribute to their ‘much-loved son’ in a statement, describing him as a ‘keen and active sportsman’ who had worked in a hospital shop until recently.
They said: ‘He recently graduated from Plymouth University and had until very recently been working at WHSmith in the Royal Infirmary despite the coronavirus outbreak, cheerfully serving key workers, patients and visitors alike.
David was saving his wages to take driving lessons to pursue his career goal of becoming a quantity surveyor. David was a keen and active sportsman and for two years was a regular member of the university hockey team. At school he loved to fence and shared this passion with children, coaching them at Birmingham University every Saturday.
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Stott and Matthews are due to appear at Manchester Magistrates’ Court today.
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