Quote: IR80 "Makinson can't claim he did it by accident, as for Flower, he never set out to kill anyone. I don't like what he did, but he was hardly attempted murder!'"
That's is correct, it was a GBH with intent, and therefore had the player on the ground die, it would be murder. Punching someone in a fight and causing death is manslaughter, punching someone already on unconscious is intent to do GBH and therefore under the virtual certainty test, murder, had he died.
Re Makinson, it's all a load of .