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| Two men appear in court charged with Battersea murder | |
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| Two men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a 46-year-old man in south-west London. | |
| Michael Swan, 45, and Gary Beech, 48, appeared at Wimbledon magistrates court over the death of Ian Tomlin. | |
| Tomlin died from a head injury after an incident in a communal area of a block of flats in Charlotte Despard Avenue, Battersea, on Wednesday. | |
| Beech, of Charlotte Despard Avenue, and Swan, of Wandsworth, were charged on Friday. | |
| Both appeared in court on Saturday morning wearing grey custody tracksuits and were flanked by two members of security staff. | |
| They spoke only to confirm their names, addresses, dates of birth and nationalities during the brief hearing. | |
| The magistrate Kevin Hearn remanded the men into custody until a hearing at the Old Bailey on Wednesday. | |
| The Metropolitan police said a postmortem examination carried out on Friday afternoon revealed Tomlin died from a head injury “caused by blunt force trauma”. | |
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