Family ‘will never get over’ death of pub owner killed in punch-up at bar

The Ricco and Loren bar on Market Street in Lichfield.(Picture: Phil Barnett/PA Wire)

Tributes have been paid to a pub owner who died after a bar fight.

Matt O’Gara died in hospital three days after reportedly being punched in the Ricco and Loren bar in Market Street in Lichfieldat 11.25pm on Sunday.

Billy Allison, 36, from Solihull, was arrested just after 5am on Monday.

He has been charged with murder and Section 18 grievous bodily harm with intent.

Tributes flooded in for the ‘much-loved’ man, who is a director of The Plough pub in the village of Huddlesford, near the city.

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