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| Second arrest over off-duty PC Neil Doyle death | |
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| A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an off-duty police constable in Liverpool. | A second man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an off-duty police constable in Liverpool. |
| Police said the arrested man, 30, was also suspected of two assault offences. | |
| PC Neil Doyle, 36, was attacked near the Aloha Club in the city centre early on Friday and died of bleeding around the brain. | |
| A 28-year-old suspect handed himself in earlier. The suspects, both from Huyton in Merseyside, are being interviewed by detectives. | |
| Police said the 30-year-old suspect had been arrested on suspicion of murder and "two offences of Section 18 assault" - causing grievous bodily harm with intent. | |
| PC Doyle was with two colleagues when they were assaulted on Colquitt Street, during a Christmas night out. | |
| A post-mortem examination revealed major blood vessels were damaged, and police said his injury was consistent with an assault. | |
| 'Unprovoked attack' | |
| Investigators are considering the possibility that the three men were attacked after being recognised as police officers, although a Merseyside Police spokesman stressed it was "not a set-in-stone motive". | |
| Chief Constable Sir Jon Murphy said the off-duty officers had been subjected to "an apparently unprovoked attack by a group of males". | |
| "Following intensive emergency treatment at the scene Constable Doyle was taken to Royal Liverpool Hospital, where he sadly died a short time later," he said. | |
| PC Doyle had been due to go on honeymoon with his wife Sarah, next month. | |
| In a statement she said: "Neil was very well loved by all of his family, friends and colleagues and it is a great loss to us all. | |
| "We are finding it extremely difficult to come to terms with what has happened and need time to be left to grieve." | |
| Merseyside Police Federation chairman Peter Singleton said PC Doyle was "a good cop that any officer would be proud to call a colleague". |