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BBC News
11-04-2025
- BBC News
Manslaughter charges after Dudley nursery death of boy
A nursery worker and a nursery owner have been charged over the death of a 14-month-old boy at a nursery in the West Sibanda died following an incident at Fairytales Day Nursery on Bourne Street, Dudley, on 9 December 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) worker Kimberley Cookson, 22, from Dudley, was charged with one count of gross negligence firm's director and owner, Deborah Latewood, 54, also from Dudley, was charged with one count of failing to comply with general duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act. Fairytales Nursery Ltd was also charged with one count of corporate manslaughter and failing to comply with a duty under the Health and Safety at Work defendants are due to appear at Dudley Magistrates' Court on 13 CPS said Fairytales Nursery was no longer in operation. Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
13-03-2025
- BBC News
Council did not manage Cambridgeshire busway risk, judge told
A council prosecuted after accidents on a guided busway mismanaged "safety", a judge has been County Council has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after three people died and a teenager was seriously hurt on the busway during a six-year council has admitted breaching health and safety legislation.A judge has been taking evidence at a sentencing hearing at Cambridge Crown Crown. Jennifer Taylor, Steve Moir and Kathleen Pitts all died after collisions on the busway, serving Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives, between 2015 and Pascal Bates, who is leading the HSE legal team, outlined evidence on Thursday as relatives of people who died watched from a public said guided busways were rare."This case is about the management of risk," Mr Bates told Judge Mark Bishop."The incidents in this case are related to incidents where that management did not work."He said one charge related to crossing the busway and one charge to people being Bates said the case concerned the "mismanagement of safety" and added: "Central to the case was unpreparedness by the council." The hearing is due to end on Bishop has indicated that he will announce decisions on sentencing at a later date.A lawyer had said at an earlier hearing that a commercial organisation convicted of the same offences would expect a seven or eight-figure fine. In September 2024, council chief executive Dr Stephen Moir apologised."We fully recognise and accept that during the historic operation of the guided busway, when these incidents occurred, that we fell far short of meeting these standards," he said in a statement released by the council."For that we are truly sorry."In October at an earlier court hearing, the council admitted two breaches of the 1974 Health and Safety at Work breaches were:Failing to ensure members of the public were not "exposed to risks" when using "designated crossing points"Failing to ensure members of the public were not "exposed to risks" when in the "vicinity of, or seeking to travel alongside" the busway Barrister Ben Compton KC, who represented the council, had told the judge at an earlier hearing that the authority's "financial circumstances" would have to be considered before sentence was passed. Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
