Two charged with New Year murder

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Anonymous poems naming potential murder suspects were posted on lamp-posts and bus stops across Bath in the weeks after Paul Kelly, 32, was killed outside the Longacre Tavern in the city.

Police charged Karl Alexander Eastwood, 20, from Bath and a 17-year-old male, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also from Bath, with Mr Kelly's murder.

The two men and a 20-year-old woman were arrested and questioned by detectives on suspicion of Mr Kelly's murder on Tuesday. The woman has now been released on police bail pending further enquiries, a spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police confirmed.

Mr Eastwood and the 17-year-old male will appear before Bath Magistrates' Court on Thursday morning.

Mr Kelly was attacked just 40 minutes into the New Year. At least 20 people witnessed the attack but, despite a number of previous arrests, no one has been charged with his murder until Wednesday.

A poem - Running From Paul Kelly - was plastered on to bus shelters and lampposts near the murder scene in the Snow Hill area of the city. It named the alleged killer and claimed several people witnessed the attack but were too scared to come forward.

Mr Kelly's parents, Paul and Alison, who live in Paisley, Scotland, had earlier urged the poet to go to the police.

His mother, Alison, had said: "I am delighted someone has a conscience and is standing up to this or these bullies.

"He has to go one step more and speak to the police and tell them who else was involved."