A MAN has admitted manslaughter following a fatal one-punch assault in Bournemouth town centre. Carl Stuart Woolley, aged 33, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter charge at Bournemouth Crown Court on Tuesday, December 22. The charges relates to an incident that unfolded on Sunday, September 13, at the entrance to The Avenue car park at the junction of Avenue Road and Norwich Avenue at The Triangle. Dorset Police received reports of an assault that night, around 10pm, and found 59-year-old local man Stephen Jeffries with a life-threatening head injury. He was taken to hospital for treatment, but died two days later of his injuries.
Bournemouth Travelodge receptionist named as inquest opens into her death THE inquest has opened into the death of a Bournemouth Travelodge receptionist who suffered “multiple blunt force head injuries”. Marta Vento, aged 27 and of Derby Road, died at the hotel in Christchurch Road on December 9. Dorset Police launched an investigation and a 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder. An inquest into Miss Vento’s death was opened on December 16 at Bournemouth Town Hall by senior coroner for Dorset Rachael Griffin. Senior coroner’s officer Ian Parry told the short hearing: “Police were called to the location following reports of an unresponsive female.
13:32 EDT, 11 December 2020
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A man held over the murder of Travelodge receptionist who was found dead in the hotel foyer has been detained under the mental health act, police said today.
The 32-year-old suspect was arrested after the young woman was battered to death while she worked the nightshift at a seaside Travelodge on Christchurch Road in Bournemouth, Dorset.
The victim, a young woman who has still not yet been named but was aged in her 20s, was found dead in the foyer area of the hotel at about 7.30am on Wednesday.
Colleagues found her covered in blood and there was little they could do to save her, while other people at the hotel described the horrific scene with blood trailing up all the stairs .