A jockey wept as he appeared in court docket charged with the homicide of a pensioner who died 10 days after a struggle exterior a pub in Newmarket.
Levi Williams, 25, is claimed to have punched 71-year-old Richard Wingrove throughout an incident involving 4 individuals exterior the Waggon and Horses pub on March 8.
Mr Wingrove died at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on March 18.
Williams, of Holland Park, Newmarket, Suffolk, appeared straight forward for a lot of the listening to and later wept as he listened to proceedings from the safe dock at Cambridge Crown Court docket.
The choose, Mark Bishop, refused an utility for bail and Williams’ companion, Lillie Could, sobbed within the public gallery.
Ms Could’s mom, Cathy Could, and Williams’ mom, Hayley Williams, additionally sat within the public gallery.
Ms Williams stated it has been her son’s dream to be a jockey “since he was knee high”.
She stated he left residence when he was 16 to go to the British Racing Faculty in Newmarket.
The defendant, who had short-cropped, brown hair and wore a long-sleeved, gray high and lightweight blue denims, was not requested to enter a plea to the cost of homicide throughout Thursday’s listening to.
The choose remanded him in custody till a plea listening to on the identical court docket on Could 9, with a provisional trial date of September 15 set.
Suffolk Police stated officers had been referred to as to stories of an altercation involving 4 individuals in Newmarket Excessive Avenue at 3.40pm on March 8.
Mr Wingrove was taken to hospital in a vital situation and died on March 18.
One other man, aged 45, was taken to hospital and was discharged later within the night on March 8, the pressure stated.
Williams had beforehand been arrested on suspicion of assault inflicting grievous bodily hurt in reference to the incident and had been bailed.
He was rearrested on Tuesday and later charged with homicide, police stated.
A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault inflicting grievous bodily hurt, and a 45-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of affray, and each have been bailed by police.
