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Police at the scene of an incident on Stonyhurst Road in Woolton(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\nPolice were called to a street in Woolton after an incident on Friday nightPolice at the scene of an incident on Stonyhurst Road in Woolton(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
A man has been charged with murder after a man was killed in an incident<\/a> in Woolton<\/a> on Good Friday. At around 11.45pm on Friday, April 18, emergency services rushed to the scene on Stonyhurst Road after a man, Martin O’Donovan, was seriously injured after being hit by a car.<\/p>\n Paramedics arrived to find people helping the 46-year-old in the road before he was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries. Stephen Bates, 41, of Herondale Road, Mossley Hill<\/a>, was arrested at the scene and has since been charged with murder.<\/p>\n He has been remanded into custody to appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, April 22.<\/p>\n A police cordon and large blue tent remained in place on Stonyhurst Road on Saturday afternoon, with a car positioned across the road within it, as forensic teams investigated.<\/p>\n At the scene, neighbours told the ECHO <\/a>they heard shouting in the street before the incident.<\/p>\n They said a house party had been held that evening at an address on the road.<\/p>\n Yvonne Sowerby, who lives on Stonyhurst Road, told the ECHO<\/a>: “We saw people arriving around 7pm.<\/p>\n “We saw people getting out with gift bags and cards. We knew there was a party going on.<\/p>\n “Then at 11ish, I’d gone to bed but heard a commotion. It seemed to go away for five or ten minutes.<\/p>\n \u200c”Then all of a sudden, I jumped out of bed and ran to the window because some noise disturbed me. I looked out of the front bedroom window and there was a car across the road, where the tent is now.<\/p>\n “At the far side of the car there was a group of people looking down at the ground. Obviously there was somebody down there. The next thing the blue lights were all here.”<\/p>\n Anyone with information on this incident should contact Merseyside Police’s social media desk via X @MerPolCC or on Facebook<\/a> \u2018Merseyside Police Contact Centre\u2019. You can also report information via our website: https:\/\/www.merseyside.police.uk\/ro\/report\/ocr\/af\/how-to-report-a-crime\/<\/a> or call 101 quoting incident reference 25000317232.<\/p>\n![\"Police](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745162349_691_0_Police-at-the-scene-of-an-incident-on-Stonyhurst-Road-in-Woolton-Liverpool-today.jpg\")
Police at the scene(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n