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Old 3rd Dec 2021, 19:40
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While she said the pilot had not breached his duty of care, she did conclude that the MoD breached its duty and fall below the standards required, although not so far below that a conclusion of corporate manslaughter could be reached.

Ms Sutherland said: “There was a breach of duty but it cannot be said to be so bad, so gross, to warrant a criminal sanction.”
The comment quoted from the coroner explains why the MOD avoided a corporate manslaughter charge again, in isolation that is probably correct, but add all the other failures of duty of care in the not to distant past there must be a case to take some more serious action against the MOD as they do seem to avoid actually doing anything to prevent incidences repeating themselves.
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