A 16-year-old youth has been charged with manslaughter following an attack on a 68-year-old man in Radcliffe in April.

John Eric Conwell, known as Eric, was walking home to his Normandy Crescent home with a friend along Water Street, Radcliffe, on Saturday, April 28, when he received a head injury that proved fatal in September.

The youth, of no fixed address, was due to appear at Bury Youth Court this morning.