12-year-old Briton drowns in Correz: Three English teachers and a lifeguard laid to rest

They were being interrogated since Tuesday immersion A British minor during a school trip to Korea in 2015. Three English teachers and a lifeguard were acquitted by Tull’s Criminal Court on Wednesday. Jurors concluded deliberations in the case of a 12-year-old girl who was found underwater during a group swim and found several elements undecided.

Three teachers from Hull (East of England), appeared with a French lifeguard and a representative of Liginiac town hall, and were adjudged a legal entity and released. In the presence of the victim’s parents, they answered “manslaughter by manifest willful breach of the duty of safety or prudence.”

At around 3pm on July 21, 2015, the floating platform on which part of a group of 24 young Britons aged between 12 and 17 were playing overturned while swimming in Lake Triozune in Liginiac. The missing young woman was alerted by a beach lifeguard who was under the sea. He was airlifted to Limoges University Hospital where he died the following morning.

“This pontoon is dangerous”

The court found that the precise moment and place of the victim’s disappearance in the water could not be clearly ascertained and no causality could be established between the overturning of the platform and his death.

Earlier, the public prosecutor sought a temporary three-year prison sentence against the teachers and a permanent ban on exercising a similar sentence against the life guard, who was 21 years old at the time of the facts. On Tuesday, the latter confirmed that they had not failed in their monitoring duty.

The verdict of the court has caused grief to the family of the deceased girl. “I hope the public prosecutor will appeal this decision. We can see all the possible problems, a young girl of 12 went missing, the pontoon was dangerous and the lack of supervision was obvious. Another court will have to hear this,” said their lawyer Mee Eloi Chan.