Teen Charged Over Death Of Hyde Man

28 February 2012, 09:57 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50

A teenager has been charged with Manslaughter after a Hyde man was punched in the face, he died the following day.

Kenneth Stott, from the Hattersley area of Hyde in Greater Manchester, was assaulted in Norfolk Street, Derbyshire on Saturday.

A police spokesman said it is believed he got into an argument with a man, a woman and a teenage boy outside the station and was punched in the face and fell to the ground.

Mr Stott was taken to Tameside Hospital but died in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A spokesman for Derbyshire Police said a 16-year-old youth from the Hadfield area of Derbyshire has been charged with manslaughter.

He is due to appear before magistrates in Chesterfield.

Two other people - a 58-year-old man and a 46-year-old woman - who were arrested in London on suspicion of assisting an offender, have been released on police bail.