A man has appeared in court charged with murder following a "brutal, sectarian" attack which left a victim in a vegetative state for nine years.
Piper John McClements, 24, from the Fountain Estate in Londonderry, was granted bail at Londonderry Magistrates' Court.
Paul McCauley, a 38-year-old Catholic, spent almost a decade in care after he was attacked by loyalists at a barbecue in the Waterside area of Londonderry in July 2006.
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He died in a home last month.