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Off-duty PC Neil Doyle dies after Liverpool assault | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
An off-duty police officer has died after he and two colleagues were assaulted in Liverpool city centre. | |
PC Neil Doyle, 36, was taken to hospital following the attack near the Aloha club in Colquitt Street, in the early hours. He died shortly after. | |
Two other off-duty officers were also attacked and have been treated in hospital for facial injuries. | |
PC Doyle worked at the Eaton Road police station in West Derby. Police are treating the attack as murder. | |
'Good cop' | |
A police spokesman said both of the injured officers had been discharged from hospital, where one had been treated for a fractured cheekbone and the other "a less serious facial injury". | |
Merseyside Police Federation chairman Peter Singleton said PC Doyle was "a good cop that any officer would be proud to call a colleague". | |
"Neil was the kind of officer the police service is built on. This is devastating news." | |
The area around where the three men were attacked has been cordoned off while a forensic investigation takes place. | |
A post-mortem examination to establish the cause of PC Doyle's death will be carried out later. |