Arrest made in San Francisco death of Australian tourist Matthew Bate

Arrest made in Australian tourist’s San Francisco death https://t.co/9nVYxIIsn7

Los Angeles: San Francisco homicide police have made an arrest in the beating death of Australian tourist Matthew Bate.

Mr Bate, 33, was holidaying in the US and in the early hours of Friday was involved in a verbal altercation that became physical outside San Francisco’s Da Vinci Villa Hotel, police said.

Mr Bate suffered injuries in the incident and was pronounced dead at a local hospital

— The Age (@theage) June 4, 2017