CPS sent nightclubber death file

Hywel Hughes died from asphyxiation

The Crown Prosecution Service is to decide if criminal charges are to brought after a man died in police custody after he was ejected from a nightclub.

A file into the death of Hywel Llywelyn Hughes, 32, who died in May, has now been handed to the CPS.

No charges have been brought in the case although two men were later questioned and later bailed by police.

The North Wales force voluntarily referred the case to the Police Complaints Authority.

Mr Hughes, who lived in Bangor with his mother, was held down on the pavement by two security guards from the city's Joop nightclub on 2 May, while they waited for the police to arrive.

He was then put in a police car to be taken to Caernarfon police station.

But the car stopped on the outskirts of Bangor when police became concerned about Mr Hughes's condition.

Asphyxiation

The journey later resumed but on arrival at the Caernarfon station's custody suite, Mr Hughes was given emergency resuscitation treatment after officers noticed he was unwell.

He was then taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor where he died the following evening.

A post mortem examination by a Home Office pathologist revealed that Mr Hughes died from asphyxiation.

Two men, who are both local and civilians, were later arrested and bailed on suspicion of manslaughter.

They were not charged with any offence.

The Police Complaints Authority have launched an investigation into the incident.