Family pay tribute to Blackpool murder victim

The family of a man who died following an assault in Blackpool have paid an emotional tribute to him.

Police were called by staff from Blackpool Victoria Hospital to report a patient had on September 7th presented at A&E with injuries after being assaulted.

The man, Rob Kerr, very sadly died earlier this week on Tuesday, September 17th

Police believe Mr Kerr, 42, was assaulted at his home address on Coronation Street in Blackpool late on Sunday, September 1st or in the early hours of Monday, September 2nd and we are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

A Home Office postmortem examination has been carried out and the death is being treated as a homicide.

An investigation is underway, and four people have been arrested in connection with enquiries.

One of those people, a man aged 27, has now been released without charge and three others, men aged 21, 29 and 40, have been released on bail pending further enquiries.

This afternoon a fifth person has been arrested on suspicion of murder. He is a 22 year old man from Blackpool and is in custody at this time.

In a tribute Mr Kerr’s mother said: “Rob was my youngest son out of 5 siblings. He has two older brothers and younger sisters. He was a loving and caring person, and he would do anything for anyone. He was such a protective person, especially over me and his three children – two of them are now adults but his youngest is still a child. He loved each of them a lot.

“If anyone knows anything, could you please come forward and contact the Police. My son did not deserve any of this. We are left heartbroken.”

Det Chief Insp John McNamara, of our Force Major Investigation Team, said: “My thoughts remain with Rob Kerr’s family at this time. While we have arrested a number of people our enquiries are very much ongoing and I would appeal to anyone who has any information which could help us piece together the events that led to Mr Kerr being assaulted and ultimately losing his life, to come forward and speak to us.”

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