A MAN is due to appear in court charged with the manslaughter of another man outside a bar.
Dennie Griffiths, 26, of Paynters Mead, Basildon, has been summonsed to appear at Basildon Magistrates’ Court on October 22 to answer a charge of manslaughter.
Jade Chambers, 23, of Hermitage Drive, Laindon, has been summonsed to the same court to answer a charge of assisting an offender.
It follows the death of Matthew Bion, 31, from Wickford, after he died of his injuries on August 27 last year.
His death followed a disturbance outside Reid’s bar in Laindon Road at around 1.15am on Sunday August 18.
A post-mortem examination recorded that he died as a result of head injuries.
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