Manslaughter charges dropped

SIX MONTHS after the Hatfield trial commenced in January, and almost five years after the fatal derailment on October 17 2000, Mr Justice Mackay instructed the jury hearing charges of manslaughter against track maintenance contractor Balfour Beatty and five individuals to find all the defendants not guilty.

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