Jurors were asked whether Hitchin’s scaffolder struck in anger

Jurors must decide whether a scaffolder accused of murder following the beating of a man after an English football match at the 2024 European Championship acted out of “anger or fear”, a prosecutor has said.

Oscar Jackson, 21, from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, punched Grant Wallendorf, 45, in the face after both watched England beat Serbia on television at a sports club in Ickleford on June 16.

Mr Wallendorf, who also lived in Hitchin, suffered a brain injury after an artery ruptured and died in hospital.

Jackson, who has denied murder and manslaughter charges during a trial at the Crown Court in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, said he struck in “self-defence” and did not intend to “harm or kill”.