Man jailed for ‘one punch’ killing

A man has received a six-and-a-half year prison sentence for the one punch manslaughter of another man in the city last year.

Alan Hatch, aged 38, hit Liam Bennett in what he later described as a “perfect punch” after a brief argument during a chance encounter along the canal near the Golden Bridge Industrial Estate.

Mr Bennett, aged 46, suffered a massive brain injury from the impact with the ground and died a week later in Beaumont Hospital.