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Man, 18, charged with murder of PC Dave Phillips | |
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An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder following the death of a Merseyside Police officer who was struck by a car. | |
PC Dave Phillips died after a pick-up vehicle mounted a central reservation in Wallasey, Merseyside on Monday. | PC Dave Phillips died after a pick-up vehicle mounted a central reservation in Wallasey, Merseyside on Monday. |
Clayton Williams, of Wheatland Lane, Wallasey has been charged with PC Phillips' murder and attempting to wound his colleague. | |
He is also charged with burglary and aggravated theft of a motor vehicle. | |
A second man, Phillip Stuart, 30, of Mayfair Court, Oxton has also been changed with burglary and aggravated unauthorised taking a car. | |
Both men are due to appear at Wirral Magistrates' Court on Thursday. | |
Married father-of-two PC Phillips was responding to reports of a burglary in Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead in the early hours of Monday. | |
He and a colleague had been attempting to stop a vehicle using a tyre-puncturing "stinger" device at 02:10 BST, police said. | |
Fellow officers tried to save PC Phillips' life but he died shortly after arriving at hospital. | |
On Wednesday evening, hundreds of people turned out to pay their respects to the officer at a candlelit vigil at New Brighton's Fort Perch Rock, Wirral. | |
A book of condolence is to be opened at Liverpool Town Hall on Thursday for the public to leave messages of sympathy. |