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| Abergele pub manageress and employee remanded over Paul Blackledge death | Abergele pub manageress and employee remanded over Paul Blackledge death |
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| A pub manageress and an employee have been remanded in custody charged with manslaughter after a man died following an incident outside a pub in Conwy. | A pub manageress and an employee have been remanded in custody charged with manslaughter after a man died following an incident outside a pub in Conwy. |
| Paul Blackledge, 54, died in hospital on Saturday night after an alleged assault last Thursday near the Pen-y-Bont pub in Abergele. | Paul Blackledge, 54, died in hospital on Saturday night after an alleged assault last Thursday near the Pen-y-Bont pub in Abergele. |
| Tracey Alison Jones, 47, and Anthony Graham Smith, 39, both appeared before magistrates in Prestatyn on Monday. | Tracey Alison Jones, 47, and Anthony Graham Smith, 39, both appeared before magistrates in Prestatyn on Monday. |
| They will appear at Caernarfon Crown court on 5 August. | They will appear at Caernarfon Crown court on 5 August. |
| Ms Jones, from Abergele, who manages the Pen-y-bont, and Mr Smith, from Pensarn, were remanded in custody. | Ms Jones, from Abergele, who manages the Pen-y-bont, and Mr Smith, from Pensarn, were remanded in custody. |
| Meanwhile an inquest was opened and adjourned into Mr Blackledge's death on Monday. | |
| North Wales central coroner John Gittins was told he had died in the specialist head injuries unit at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire at Stoke-on-Trent. | |
| A post mortem examination carried out at Glan Clwyd hospital, Bodelwyddan, by Home Office pathologist Dr Bryan Rogers revealed the cause of death as a "blunt force head injury". | |
| Mr Gittins adjourned the inquest to a date to be fixed. |