A MAN is to appear in court today (Saturday) after being charged with murder in the Forest of Dean.

Neil Anthony Woodley, 49, of Blakes Way, Coleford, has been accused of murdering 20-year-old Luke Wasley in Oakfields in the early hours of Wednesday morning (June 14).

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He has also been charged with Section 18 wounding with intent and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. These two counts relate to the same date and two other men.

Woodley has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court.

Four other people who had been arrested on suspicion of murder were released from police custody and will face no further action.