08/11/2004
Man to appear in court following NI student's death
A 21-year-old man is expected to appear in court in Scotland on charges relating to the death of a Co Down student last week.
Andrew Couser, who was studying at university in Edinburgh, was discovered with serious head injuries on Western Approach Road on Tuesday morning and taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where he later died from his injuries.
The victim had been out socialising with friends when he became involved in a fight with several youths at around 3am.
Mr Couser, from Donaghadee, is understood to have broken away from the fracas near Thomson's bar and gone to a nearby baker's shop where he refused medical attention and asked for a pie.
He was later discovered by a motorist on the Western Approach Road, lying under a bridge. He died a short time later in hospital.
Meanwhile, a 30-year-old woman has been charged in connection with the attempted abduction of a child in west Belfast.
The woman is expected to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday on charges of child abduction, assault and criminal damage following an incident at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast last Friday when a six-year-old girl was taken from outside a shop.
The child was reunited with her parents shortly after the alleged abduction attempt.
(MB)
Andrew Couser, who was studying at university in Edinburgh, was discovered with serious head injuries on Western Approach Road on Tuesday morning and taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where he later died from his injuries.
The victim had been out socialising with friends when he became involved in a fight with several youths at around 3am.
Mr Couser, from Donaghadee, is understood to have broken away from the fracas near Thomson's bar and gone to a nearby baker's shop where he refused medical attention and asked for a pie.
He was later discovered by a motorist on the Western Approach Road, lying under a bridge. He died a short time later in hospital.
Meanwhile, a 30-year-old woman has been charged in connection with the attempted abduction of a child in west Belfast.
The woman is expected to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday on charges of child abduction, assault and criminal damage following an incident at the Kennedy Centre in west Belfast last Friday when a six-year-old girl was taken from outside a shop.
The child was reunited with her parents shortly after the alleged abduction attempt.
(MB)
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