A man died after 'running for his life' and being placed under a citizens' arrest, an inquest heard.
Horrified witnesses called 999 when they saw a 25-year-old male being held in a ‘tight’ headlock as two men tried to perform a citizens’ arrest on him.
Minutes earlier, Christopher Walters had been spotted running in Longton where an Audi A3’s windows had been smashed with a 14-pound sledgehammer.