An 18-year-old man is due in court charged with the murder of a police officer who died after being struck by a car.

PC Dave Phillips died after a pick-up vehicle mounted a central reservation in Wallasey, Merseyside, on Monday.

Clayton Williams, of Wheatland Lane, Wallasey has been charged with murder and attempting to wound his colleague.

He is also charged with burglary and aggravated theft of a motor vehicle and is due before Wirral magistrates later.

A second man, Phillip Stuart, 30, of Mayfair Court, Oxton, has also been charged with burglary and aggravated unauthorised taking of a car.

Three women, aged between 19 and 59, and a 39-year old man, who were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, have all been released on bail pending further inquiries.

PC Phillips, 34, died after he was struck by a vehicle as he attempted to use a tyre-puncturing” stinger” device to stop the car, police said.

The married father-of-two had been responding to reports of a burglary in Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead with a colleague.

Fellow officers tried to save his life before he was rushed to hospital, but he died shortly after arrival.

A book of condolence is to be opened at Liverpool Town Hall later for the public to leave messages of sympathy.