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It's Okay To Be Smart Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment Science/AAAS | ScienceNOW: The Latest News Headlines from the Sc Mail Online Anthony Owen, 68, was found unconscious 20 yards from his home, next to his white Honda civic, which was still running Witnesses reported seeing three youths on BMX bikes cycling away from Mr Owen's home on millionaires' row in Hale Village, near Liverpool By James Tozer Published: 19:45 GMT, 20 March 2012 | Updated: 18:02 GMT, 21 March 2012 Head injuries: Anthony Owen died a week after being found unconscious just 20 yards from his home Police are continuing to question three teenagers today over the murder of a surgeon outside his millionaires' row home. Anthony Owen, 68, was found unconscious 20 yards from the property next to his white Honda Civic, which was still running. Two neighbours, in the affluent Hale Village in Widnes, Cheshire, called an ambulance and Mr Owen was taken to hospital. However, the cancer specialist is not thought to have regained consciousness, and died on Saturday. Shocked residents described the surgeon, who was semi-retired, as a ‘pillar of the community’.

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