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
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
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
Lorry driver, 24, and mechanic, 43, are found guilty of the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated as they were smuggled into Britain in HGV trailer By Katie Feehan For Mailonline Published: 13:17 GMT, 21 December 2020 | Updated: 13:18 GMT, 21 December 2020 Gheorghe Nica, 43, and Eamonn Harrison, 24, have been found … Read more
A man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of a woman in a quaint Cotswold village has been released on bail. The man, said to be in his 40s, was arrested yesterday after the woman’s body was discovered in a property in the picturesque village of Great Rissington, Gloucestershire. The death of the woman, … Read more
Father, 37, admits manslaughter of his 15-year-old son who died as result of brain injury he suffered as a baby By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 18:20 GMT, 6 November 2020 | Updated: 18:20 GMT, 6 November 2020 A 37-year-old father has admitted the manslaughter of his teenage son who died as a result of injuries … Read more
An alcoholic Belgian anaesthetist accused of downing drinks before a fatal caesarean on a British mother has gone on trial in France. Expat Xynthia Hawke, 28, from Somerset, died shortly after giving birth to her baby son Isaac at the Orthez maternity hospital in southwest France, in September 2014. Ms Hawke went into cardiac arrest … Read more