Lancashire Police have charged four men with murder following the death of a man in Nelson.
Police were called to a home in Nelson at around 5.20am on Sunday, November 5 after ambulance crews found a man dead inside the property. He has been named as 53-year-old Andrej Minin and a Home Office post-mortem examination found that he died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head and neck. A murder investigation was launched and three people were arrested on suspicion of murder on Sunday, followed by the arrest of a fourth man on Tuesday. All four men were known to the victim.
They are: - Waldemar Bernacki, 51, of Fir Street Nelson - Laimonas Prascevicius, 53, of Fir Street, Nelson - Vasile Olaru, 56, of Fir Street, Nelson - Rimantas Vystartas, 54, of Fir Street, Nelson They have been remanded into custody to appear at Burnley Magistrates Court today . DCI Mark Haworth-Oates, of Lancashire Police's Force Major Investigation Team, said: “Andrej lost his life after being the victim of a serious and sustained assault and my thoughts are with his loved ones.
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