Woman, 23, pleads guilty to manslaughter over house fire death of 37-year-old mother-of-five Courtney Brierley, 23, admitted manslaughter of 37-year-old Michelle Pearson Fire crews rushed to reports of a house fire in Jackson Street, Walkden, in 2017 Ms Pearson’s home was attacked in December 2017 and she died in August 2019 Brierley, who is currently … Read more
A widow who believes Highways England should be prosecuted over the death of her husband on a smart motorway is today staging a protest outside a police headquarters. Claire Mercer, 44, said future deaths ‘will be blood on the hands of the people running our roads’ as she prepared to mark what would have been … Read more
Five police officers face manslaughter probe over death of suspect, 24, ‘who was restrained and carried to a van after being held when he was discharged from hospital’ Five Thames Valley police face manslaughter probe over death of suspect Brian Ringrose, 24, was taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital after arrest The IOPC police watchdog said … Read more
Two businessmen who poisoned a man to death with lethal carbon monoxide fumes whilst they cut corners at a convenience store to save money were jailed for manslaughter on Friday. Shopkeeper Shafaq Khan, 50, and 51-year old property landlord Mushtaq Ahmed had illegally hooked up a petrol powered generator to power fridges and lighting at … Read more
Highways England could be taken to court for corporate manslaughter following the death of a grandmother on a smart motorway. The dramatic development comes less than a month after the notorious roads were condemned by a coroner as death traps. Yesterday another coroner referred Highways England to prosecutors after it was revealed no one had … Read more
Highways England was today referred to the Crown Prosecution Service where it could face manslaughter charges for the death of a grandmother on a so-called ‘smart motorway’. The Government-owned company was referred to the CPS by the coroner holding an inquest into the death of Nargis Begum, 62. The grandmother-of-nine died when another vehicle smashed … Read more
Man, 32, is arrested for murder and woman, 30, for manslaughter after 11-year-old boy died in hospital after becoming unwell at a house in Lincoln Boy, 11, was found unwell at a house in Lincoln on Friday and rushed to hospital He died shortly afterwards, prompting a murder probe from Lincolnshire Police A 32-year-old man … Read more
The devastation caused by a mill explosion that killed four workers and injured several others was like a scene ‘out of the movies’, a court has heard. A jury at the Nightingale court at Chester Town Hall on Monday was told the body of chargehand Jason Shingler, 38, was never found following the blast at … Read more
A company director is due to stand trial today accused of gross negligence manslaughter following the deaths of four people in a huge mill explosion. The jury has been sworn in to hear the charges against company director George Boden as well as two mill managers at Bosley Mill in Cheshire. The blast caused the four-storey … Read more
Highways England could face manslaughter charges over the death of a 62-year-old grandmother who was killed on a stretch of smart motorway, an inquest has heard. Nargis Begum, from Sheffield, was the passenger in a Nissan Qashqai car, driven by her husband, Mohammed Bashir, 67, which broke down on the M1 in South Yorkshire, near Woodhall … Read more