Pedestrian Who Swore at Cyclist Has Manslaughter Conviction Overturned

A pedestrian who swore and waved at a cyclist who was riding on the pavement, causing her to veer into the road where she was hit by a car, has had a conviction for manslaughter quashed. Auriol Grey, 50, gesticulated at Celia Ward, 77, and told her to “get off the [expletive] pavement” in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, causing her to fall into the road. The incident on Oct. 20, 2020 was caught on one of the town’s CCTV cameras, and Ms. Grey was convicted of manslaughter after a retrial and was jailed for three years in March 2023. But on Wednesday three judges sitting at the Court of Appeal quashed Ms. Grey’s conviction and her lawyers said she should never have been charged. They also rejected a request by the prosecution for a retrial....