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Joe Hadden

Men gave false name to lure pensioner to door before killing him, court told

Stephen Ridgeway died in hospital a month after his Somerset home was burgled (Avon and Somerset Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A pensioner was lured to his door by a man pretending to be someone he knew before being beaten, robbed and left fatally injured, a court has heard.

Stephen Ridgeway, 72, died in hospital more than a month after the attack at his home in Keynsham, near Bristol, in the early hours of November 3 last year.

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