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HEADLESS MORSE-MAN

Hunt monitor Bryan Griffiths is looking at a manslaughter conviction following huntsman Trevor Morse’s death by gyrocopter (See SchNEWS 669). Griffiths, who was was tracking from above, had landed his ‘copter to refuel when Morse looked at the gyrocopter straight in the blades and thought "I can win this...” He purposely strode across the field and valiantly stood in its path where at a breakneck speed of 200mph the propellers went right through his head.

As a result of Morse’s idiocy Bryan Griffiths, is on trial in Birmingham Crown Court accused of manslaughter by gross negligence. The sentence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Bryan Griffiths’s future dangles uncertainly as Mr. Morse’s choice brought things to a head. The trial perseveres...



 
 

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Added on 9th March 2010 at 16:34 by kit haines

The rules are very simple - no-one approaches a running aircraft without explicit permission from the air or ground crew at the controls. no permission, no crew fault. i can't believe this has wasted so much expensive court time.


Added on 6th March 2010 at 15:13 by Lynn Sawyer

A couple of us have taken notes thus far. Interestingly Otis Ferry turned up at ther airfield just after and there was a general plan by the hunt to stop the coptor leaving according to joint MFH Anthony Spencer. The Countryside Alliance have been present every day in the press benches notably Clare Rowson Midlands CA director supported on occassion by Tim Bonner.


 

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