Simon Dobbin: five arrested on suspicion of murder seven years after assault

Simon Dobbin was attacked in Southend, Essex, in March 2015 and died in October 2020

Five men have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man who was left permanently brain damaged by an attack on his way home from a football match and died five years later.

Simon Dobbin was assaulted in Southend in Essex after a Southend United v Cambridge United match on 21 March 2015. The former RAF serviceman died aged 48 on 21 October 2020.