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| Two men have been jailed for killing an off-duty police officer who died after he was punched while on a Christmas night out with colleagues. | Two men have been jailed for killing an off-duty police officer who died after he was punched while on a Christmas night out with colleagues. |
| Newly married PC Neil Doyle, 36, was killed on the streets that he “lived to protect” by Andrew Taylor and Timmy Donovan, Liverpool crown court heard. Mr Justice Mark Turner sentenced Taylor to seven years and six months in prison and Donovan to six years and 10 months on Friday. | Newly married PC Neil Doyle, 36, was killed on the streets that he “lived to protect” by Andrew Taylor and Timmy Donovan, Liverpool crown court heard. Mr Justice Mark Turner sentenced Taylor to seven years and six months in prison and Donovan to six years and 10 months on Friday. |
| The men were both found guilty of manslaughter of the officer by joint enterprise by a unanimous jury after a six-week trial. The court had heard that Doyle was out with his colleagues from Eaton Road station when he was fatally struck by a “piledriver” punch after they were set upon by the defendants. | The men were both found guilty of manslaughter of the officer by joint enterprise by a unanimous jury after a six-week trial. The court had heard that Doyle was out with his colleagues from Eaton Road station when he was fatally struck by a “piledriver” punch after they were set upon by the defendants. |
| Doyle staggered across the street in Liverpool city centre after he had been hit twice and was left dying in a gutter early on 19 December 2014. | Doyle staggered across the street in Liverpool city centre after he had been hit twice and was left dying in a gutter early on 19 December 2014. |
| Neither Donovan, 30 – a sports-event manager from Childwall – nor Taylor, 29, of Huyton, admitted throwing the fatal punch that ruptured Doyle’s vertebral artery and led to bleeding on the brain. | |
| During the trial, the court heard Taylor, who worked as a football consultant for the Wasserman Media Group, had “baited” Doyle for a fight after coming across him and his colleagues, PC Robert Marshall and PC Michael Steventon, as they made their way to a bar. | During the trial, the court heard Taylor, who worked as a football consultant for the Wasserman Media Group, had “baited” Doyle for a fight after coming across him and his colleagues, PC Robert Marshall and PC Michael Steventon, as they made their way to a bar. |