DETECTIVES are questioning two youths in connection with the death of a 32-year-old man who died after being attacked and robbed of two bottles of cider.
David Paul Bruce, of Pecket Close, Newsham, Blyth, died in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) last Thursday.
He was attacked in Stanhope Street, Newcastle, shortly after midnight on August 2 as he was on his way to a relative's house in Stanton Street. After the attack, in which a carrier bag with two bottles of cider was stolen, he managed to make his way to a relative's home.
He was later admitted to Newcastle General Hospital and then transferred to the RVI, where he lapsed into a coma and did not regain consciousness
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