MP renews Fewston campaign
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• Pressure to bring manslaughter charges against the directors of Fewston Transport has intensified following another intervention by Labour MP Alice Mahon. The MP for Halifax has written again to the head of the Crown Prosecution Service asking it to reconsider its decision not to prosecute the company, whose faulty truck killed six in the Sowerby bridge disaster. In November the High Court rejected a request for the CPS to be compelled to reconsider its decision not to bring manslaughter charges against Fewston and its directors. Kris Gledhill, counsel for Brenda Waterworth—the widow of the Fewston driver killed at Sowerby Bridge—is also asking the Appeal Court for leave to appeal against the High Court decision. "The case is not dead yet," she says, "far from it."