Sergeant was hit by train after officers were 'misled', inquest hears

CALL TO NETWORK RAIL WAS DELAYED

- By SOPHIE ROBINSON, PA

A POLICE sergeant was struck by a train after “misleading” information was given to officers trying to help a vulnerable man on a railway line, an inquest has heard.

Police officers were told Network Rail would be contacted to stop the train, but the call was delayed by five minutes before Graham Saville was fatally injured in Balderton, near Newark.

Nottingham Coroner's Court heard that officers attending the incident with Sgt Saville repeatedly told the police dispatcher that the distressed man, referred to in court as Patient C, was near the railway line on the evening of August 24 2023.