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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Kathie McInnes

Man 'ran for his life' before dying in citizens' arrest headlock gone wrong

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.

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