Ex-Wanganui man dies after Aust bar fight

ATTACKED: Jed Beaumont, who died after a fight in Western Australia. PHOTO/SUPPLIED

A former Wanganui man has died after being attacked outside a bar in a small Western Australian town.

Jed Beaumont, 33, was in a coma for almost a month in Royal Perth Hospital before his death on Monday last week.

Mr Beaumont attended St Augustine's College in Wanganui - now Cullinane College.

He is understood to have been working as a chef in a migrant detention centre in the small wheat-belt town of Northam, when he and another man were attacked by several people in the street outside a pub on the night of April 17. Northam is 97km northeast of Perth.

Perth police told the New Zealand Herald that 23-year-old Hubert Benjamin Humes, from Northam, had been charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm and endangering life, health and safety of a person.

He is due to reappear in court next Monday. Three men were arrested after the assault.

Mr Beaumont was due to become a father soon.

A Givealittle page has been started to raise the money to bring Mr Beaumont's body home to be buried in Taranaki. Any money left over would go into a trust for his unborn child.

Mr Beaumont's Wellington-based sister Eliza said the family was "distraught".

"Jed was very close to his family and the pain they are feeling is unbearable," she said, adding that her parents were in Perth working with authorities to bring their son home to New Zealand.

"It's been a horrible and traumatic experience for them all. They are heartbroken and extremely distraught.

"My brother was perfect in every way. He had a beautiful soul and heart, and I miss him so, so much."

The appeal, which began on Saturday, had raised $2745 from 45 donors by Sunday night.

Donations can be made to the Beaumont family at https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/bringjedhome.

NZME.