A Bradford man has died in hospital two days after being found kicked and beaten in the street.

David Hill, 35, pictured, of Yorkshire Way, Great Horton, had been left in intensive care after the violent attack in Chorley.

His family said today he had travelled to the Lancashire town for "one last attempt" to make up with his estranged girlfriend.

Mr Hill's sister, Carol Mather, said he was an alcoholic who had had a six-year, on-off relationship with a woman he had met at a rehabilitation centre.

He had travelled to her home in Chorley because he had been feeling lonely and had wanted to try one more time to heal the rift between them.

"He still wanted to make some sort of life with her," she said.

Lancashire police said they were called to a house, where Mr Hill and the woman had been drinking, shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning, to find Mr Hill in the street with serious head injuries.

He was taken to intensive care at Chorley Hospital where he died yesterday.

Mr Hill, who had a 13-year-old daughter, Jade, from a previous relationship, had fought alcoholism most of his life, said Mrs Mather. He had begun drinking in his early teens but it did not make him violent, she said.

"He wouldn't harm anyone," she said. "If anyone offered to harm him he would run a mile. He was very gentle.

"He was also very ill. He had liver and kidney problems. We knew he might be found dead because of that, but not kicked to death in the street like this."

She said that Mr Hill's mother, June, was distraught. His other sister, Karen Haigh, had recently died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 43.

Lancashire police said a man had been charged with wounding on Wednesday but, after Mr Hill's death, a report was sent to Manchester Crown Court and the charge could be amended to murder.