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Millionaire banker beaten to death

A millionaire banker was beaten to death just 200 yards from a police station after intervening to save a couple being assaulted by a mob.

Frank McGarahan, 45, was out with relatives the night before his niece's christening when he saw the pair being attacked near a taxi rank.

The area is close to Norwich's main police station and the area is surrounded by CCTV cameras.
But as he shouted at the gang of ten men to stop, they turned on him. In the fracas, he suffered a serious head injury.

The father-of-two was the chief operating officer of Barclays Wealth, the bespoke finance arm which caters for the bank's richest customers, and managed their combined assets of £133billion.

On Saturday evening the family went out for dinner in Norwich city centre. His wife Alison and their two children, aged seven and four months, returned to their hotel but Mr McGarahan stayed out for another drink with two male relatives.

They were waiting for a taxi home when the attack happened.

McGarahan only wanted to stop the beating.  He certainly didn't know it would be the last thing he would ever do.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13