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Jail for owner of inflatable that exploded and killed girl
Daily Express
|November 11, 2023
THE owner of an inflatable trampoline which exploded - killing a threeyear-old girl has been jailed for six months for health and safety offences.
Ava-May Littleboy was thrown into the air when the equipment failed, with a witness saying she went the "height of a house", a court heard.
Pascal Bates for Great Yarmouth Borough Council, which brought the prosecution together with the Health and Safety Executive, told magistrates Ava-May suffered serious head injuries in the July 2018 horror.
He said witnesses described her being thrown up to 40ft in the air on Gorleston-on-Sea beach in Norfolk.
Mr Bates said a second girl, aged nine, who had been on the trampoline suffered "no significant injuries".
Sentencing yesterday, Chelmsford district judge Christopher Williams told inflatable owner Curt Johnson: "This is a case of such seriousness I have to conclude a deterrent sentence is necessary." He added that Johnson was "wilfully blind to the risk" and that the inflatable "should not have been in use".
This story is from the November 11, 2023 edition of Daily Express.
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