Families of two girls killed when a car slammed into a school party have told of their 'disappointment' after the CPS revealed the motorist suffered an epileptic seizure behind the wheel and will face no criminal charges.
Claire Freemantle, 47, had a seizure while driving her Land Rover, sending the £80,000 4x4 ploughing through a fence and into an end-of-term celebrations at The Study Prep school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on July 6 last year.
If it's true that she had no previous episodes, then no matter how hard for the families, it's the only possible decision.
Trevor Sterling, lawyer for the families, said: 'This is disappointing; justice must not only be done, but seen to be done.
'In the absence of a process, how do we interrogate the evidence? What does this message send to the public that deaths can arise in a road traffic situation, and there could be no sanction because there is no process to interrogate the evidence?
'The next focus will be on the inquest, and there will be a deep and thorough review of the evidence, which will be examined by a jury if necessary.'
Now that the police investigation is finally over - it took nearly an entire year to find this out? - the inquest will no doubt come to the same conclusion.
Jaswant Narwal, Chief Crown Prosecutor with oversight of the Crown Prosecution Service London Homicide Unit, said the incident was a tragedy. She added: 'We have carefully considered this complex and sensitive case, taking into consideration all the material gathered as part of the lengthy and detailed police investigation.'
Perhaps too lengthy and detailed?
3 comments:
Every misfortune nowadays must have someone to blame, hence the source for a claim to sustain the coffin-chasing lawyers. Life has risks, get over it.
And it shouldn't take a year to work that out, but it will have been a year of lawyer-time that still needs to be funded somehow, by someone, probably the taxpayer again, kerching.
So Londonistan is so third world that there IS a "Crown Prosecution Service London Homicide Unit" . . .
How do we examine the evidence? Throw the driver in the river: if she floats burn her; if she drowns she was innocent.
The question is asked and answered, as they say; it will be examined at an inquest and if found faulty the CPS can reconsider charging.
A year does seem a long time but if it were done quicker there would be complaints that it was rushed.
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