Ian Tomlin death: Two charged with murder after father found dead outside his home in south London

Police have charged two men with murder after father died following a mass brawl near his south-west London flat.

Ian Tomlin, 46, was found slumped by the lifts outside his flat in south-west London on Wednesday night.

Michael Swan, 45, and Gary Beech, 48, will appear in court in connection with his death.

Officers at the Met said Mr Tomlin died of a head injury caused by blunt force trauma following an incident in a communal area of a block of flats in Battersea, south-west London, on Wednesday.

Police were called to a group fighting at the building on Charlotte Despard Avenue at about 5.30pm.

Medics battled to save Mr Tomlin's life, but he was pronounced dead 45 minutes later.

Swan, of Enterprise Way, Wandsworth, and Beech, of Charlotte Despard Avenue, Battersea, will appear at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court on Saturday.