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A loving dad died 10 years after a vicious assault - his attackers have never been brought to justice

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A popular and much-loved dad and granddad who died 10 years after being attacked and left unconscious in the street was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.

Ashley McGurk, then 32, was set upon at a shopping centre in north Manchester as he walked home from a night out in the early hours of Christmas Day in 2011, in what police believe was a violent robbery.

Ashley, also sometimes known as Ashley Thomas, was left with 'catastrophic' injuries including a 'devastating' brain injury from which it was initially feared he would not survive.

He did, however, he never returned home and spent the next 10 years in a number of different care homes needing round-the-clock care. READ MORE: 'Dragonfire' police officers hiding in woods find man launching parcels into Forest Bank prison He died in hospital in January last year aged 41 after being taken unwell.

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