Judge told road rage charge must be upgraded to murder

THE case of a man charged with assaulting an English motorist, who died after an alleged road rage attack in Dublin last September, has been upgraded to murder.

Raymond Bates, 49, who was from Durham, sustained serious head injuries following an incident at the junction of Sandymount Road/Newbridge Avenue and Tritonville Road, Dublin 4 on September 26 last.

He felt unwell the next day and went to St Vincent’s Hospital but was then transferred to Beaumont Hospital where he fell into a coma and died on the evening of September 30 last. The father-of-three had been working in Ireland on a gas pipeline project.