We recently reported on the trial of three Warwickshire fire
services managers charged with manslaughter by gross negligence
following the 2007 deaths of four fire-fighters.
Since our last report, one of the three individuals charged, Paul
Simmons, has since been acquitted. The Judge presiding reasoned Mr
Simmons is in fact a frontline fire-fighter who has never held a
senior officer role.
The trial is ongoing and a verdict on managers Timothy Woodward and
Adrian Ashley is awaited.
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A trial following the 2007 deaths of four fire-fighters has
commenced at Stafford Crown Court. Ian Reid, John Averis, Ashley
Stephens and Darren Yates-Badley were killed in a fire at a
vegetable packing factory at Atherstone on Stour in Warwickshire in
November 2007 after being sent into a burning building. Managers
Timothy Woodward, Paul Simmons and Adrian Ashley deny four counts
of manslaughter by gross
