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Tributes pour in for 'brilliant mathematician' who died after brutal street beating Tributes were pouring in today for a "true hero" and gifted student who died after being brutally beaten while breaking up a street row. Joseph Dymond-Williams, 17, tried to stop an argument between a woman and her boyfriend on June 22, but was punched then kicked in the head by two other men. The prize-winning mathematician, from Whitchurch, Bristol, suffered three skull fractures and had been in hospital in an induced coma but last night police confirmed he had died. A murder investigation is under way and a post-mortem examination is due to be held today. Joseph was out in Bristol city centre when the argument erupted outside the Que-C bar in King Street just after midnight. Police said the keen sportsman was only trying to calm down the... [read full story]
