Motorist Who Killed 8-Year-Old Girls in Wimbledon Will Not Be Prosecuted

Published on June 26, 2024

A woman who crashed a Land Rover into a prep school in Wimbledon, killing two 8-year-old girls, will not be prosecuted after it emerged she had suffered from undiagnosed epilepsy. Selena Lau and Nuria Sajjad were killed when Claire Freemantle’s car crashed through the fence surrounding The Study Prep School on July 6, 2023. On Wednesday the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced the decision not to prosecute and said Ms. Freemantle is believed to have suffered an epileptic seizure at the wheel. But she had not been diagnosed with epilepsy prior to the accident and was not therefore criminally liable for the accident....

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