How a work trip night out changed family's lives forever after dad's brutal murder
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A dad's night out during a work trip changed the lives of his loved ones forever after he was brutally murdered in a horror attack. Festival worker Andrew Main, 33, was repeatedly punched by Joseph Dix and Macauley Ruddock as he lay bleeding on the pavement outside a hotel in Swansea, Wales. During the attack, the victim suffered devastating brain injuries, which sadly led to his death.
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Dix and Ruddock denied murder, arguing they had been acting in self-defence, but they were found guilty during a trial at Swansea Crown Court. The pair will be sentenced on Friday but a judge has told them there is only one sentence for the murder - life imprisonment.
The court heard the defendants and Mr Main met for the first time on the night of July 16 last year with the three men being in Swansea for work. Mr Main was visiting from Scotland and friends Dix and Ruddock from Somerset. All three had been drinking on the night in question and the defendants were also taking cocaine. The court heard the trio met by chance in the Coyote Ugly bar on Wind Street - Dix and Ruddock were in the company of a couple they had met that night, Hannah Tedstone and Katrina Matthews, while Mr Main was with a friend from Scotland by the name of Michael Bell.
The meeting seemed to have passed without incident with Mr Main giving the defendants cash for the pool tables in return for being bought a drink. However, violence flared in the early hours of the following morning after all parties had returned to the Travelodge Hotel on Princess Way where, save for Mr Bell, they were all staying.
