THE family of an east Belfast man who died after suffering serious head injuries during a night out have made a complaint to the Police Ombudsman.
Short Strand man Conan Anderson died almost two weeks after he was injured during a night out in Belfast city centre.
New pictures have now emerged of the 27-year-old talking to PSNI members and paramedics in the hours before his death.
It was previously known that the PSNI and an ambulance crew approached him around 6am when he was seen to be unsteady and had suffered a facial injury but is believed to have declined treatment.
He had been out at Thompson's Garage nightclub on Sunday, February 5 and left in the early hours of Monday, February 6.
Mr Anderson, a sports development student at Belfast Metropolitan College, dedicated much of his time to coaching at Doyle FC in the Short Strand.
A 27-year-old man has been charged with his manslaughter.
It is believed he was seen as he walked past the Belfast law courts in Oxford Street at around 5.45am.
Members of his family met with officials from the Police Ombudsman’s Office this week.
The family solicitor Michael Brentnall last night said: “Our office has been instructed by the Anderson family to request that the Police Ombudsman’s office investigate the reasons why PSNI officers who spoke with Conan in the immediate aftermath of the assault, whereby he was showing clear signs of serious injury, failed to take steps to ensure he received urgent medical treatment.
The PSNI undoubtedly owed him a duty of care in this instance and seemingly failed to fulfil that duty.”
A spokesman for the Police Ombudsman said: “We met with the family and we have received a complaint.”
