Five men have pleaded guilty to offences in connection with the death of Andrew Ballantyne in High Wycombe last summer.
Mr Ballantyne, who was 55-years-old, was found by police officers on the floor in Micklefield Road on 31 July last year having been assaulted by a group of men.
Sadly, despite the best efforts of the police officers and ambulance crew, Andrew was declared deceased at the scene.
Five men: Asher Anderson, aged 35, of Walton Gardens, Wembley; James Scott, aged 32 of Hawthorne Road, High Wycombe; Daniel Ramsey, aged 25, of Micklefield Road, High Wycombe; Ramah Lampkin, aged 24, of Rowan Avenue, High Wycombe; and Nickolas Williams, aged 26, of Gibbs Close, High Wycombe, were arrested and originally charged with Mr Ballantyne’s murder.
But today at Reading Crown Court, Anderson and Scott pleaded guilty to the alternative offence of manslaughter, which was accepted by the prosecution.
With Ramsey, Williams and Lampkin pleadeing guilty to violent disorder.
Anderson also pleaded guilty to common assault and Williams pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to an incident 45 minutes earlier at The Dolphin pub in High Wycombe.
The case has been adjourned to 25 February for sentencing at the same court.
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