Teen dies after breaking up fight

A gifted student who was brutally beaten after breaking up a street row last month has died of his injuries.

Joseph Dymond-Williams, 17, tried to stop an argument between a woman and her boyfriend on June 22, but was punched then kicked in the head by two other men.

The prize-winning mathematician, of Whitchurch, Bristol, suffered three skull fractures and had been in hospital in an induced coma, with his family at his bedside.

An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman confirmed the teenager had died and a murder investigation was under way.

Appealing for witnesses, the spokesman said: "It is possible that potential witnesses saw the altercation between a man and a woman and the victim intervening to try to help and then himself being assaulted.

"However, it is thought that they might not have realised the seriousness of the assault at the time."

Joseph was out in Bristol city centre when the argument erupted outside the Que-C bar in King Street just after midnight.

Police said at the time that Joseph, a keen sportsman, was only trying to calm down the situation and was not being aggressive.

The first-year A-level student had just finished exams in maths, psychology, business studies and sports studies at St Brendan's Sixth Form College, and had won prizes for maths.

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