Apprentice jockey Levi Williams has been charged with the homicide of a 71-year-old man.
Police have been known as to Newmarket Excessive Road at 3.40pm on Saturday, March 8 following stories of an altercation involving 4 individuals close by, with two males being later taken to hospital.
One of many males, aged 45, was discharged from hospital in Cambridge later that night however the different remained in a vital situation and subsequently handed away on Tuesday on the metropolis’s Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
Williams, who was arrested on suspicion of assault inflicting grievous bodily hurt and subsequently bailed, was rearrested on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old, of Holland Park, Newmarket, appeared earlier than Ipswich Magistrates’ Courtroom on Wednesday charged with homicide the place he was remanded in custody till a preliminary listening to at Cambridge Crown Courtroom on Thursday, March 20.
In a press release, Suffolk Police confirmed: “A 23-year-old man who was also arrested on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm; and a 45-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of affray; both remain on police bail until 5 June 5 and June 9 respectively.”
Williams, who has 12 winners to his title from 156 rides on British soil, has not participated in any race since being handed an 18-month suspension after testing optimistic for cocaine – a sanction that expired in November 2024.
That was the rider’s second BHA ban for the utilization of banned substances, following a failed take a look at for cocaine and hashish in 2021.
