A MAN has today been charged with the murder of a teenager who died five months after being allegedly attacked in a Hampshire park.
Luke Woolf spent five months in intensive care battling serious head injuries for which he had undergone surgery.
However his critical state deteriorated and 18-year-old Luke passed away on the evening of March 30 this year.
Scott Robert Townson, of Radcliffe Road, Southampton, had originally faced charged of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and was being held in custody.
Today however, detectives involved in the investigation brought Townson out of prison and officially charged him with murder.
Luke, from the Northam area of the city, was found in a park at the junction of Radcliffe Road and Augustine Road in the Northam area of the city at 6.10am on October 25 last year.
He was found lying next to his black bike by a passer-by who called 999. Police then launched a major enquiry into the alleged assault, called Operation Approval.
Townson, who turned 21 last month, will appear before Lyndhurst Magistrates Court this afternoon.
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