George Bala Lloyd-Evans, 33, died in hospital after attack in city centre

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A teenager and a man will appear in court charged with murder after a 33-year-old man was knifed to death in Liverpool city centre following a fight.

George Bala Lloyd-Evans died in hospital after being stabbed in the chest in the early hours of Sunday morning, Merseyside police said.

Ramal Edwards, 19, of Emerson Street, Toxteth, and Kieran Perry, 24, of Wendell Street, Toxteth, were arrested and have been charged with murder. They will appear at Liverpool city magistrates court on Thursday.

Police were called to a fight outside the Wild Cat and Ink bars on Back Colquitt Street at about 3am on 2 June.

On arrival, they found two men with knife wounds and chased a third man who was arrested nearby.

A knife believed to have been used in the incident was recovered from the scene.

Lloyd-Evans was taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital where he later died. A postmortem revealed that the cause of death was a single stab wound to the heart.

The incident occurred as football fans celebrated Liverpool’s victory in the Champions League final earlier in the evening.