Family of teenager killed in crash 'torn apart' by trolls who said he 'deserved' death
19.11.2022 - 00:31
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
The parents of a teenager killed in a horrific road crash say his death threatened to tear their family apart, as cruel online commenters claimed that he had deserved to die.
Shae Marlow, 16, died after the Volkswagen Golf he was driving ploughed into a stone gatepost in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, on November 3 2020. He suffered multiple serious injuries and died at the scene.
An inquest was launched into the teen's death and on Friday a jury decided that a police car that had accelerated up to the Gold moments before the crash "most likely" contributed to the way he drove in the lead up to the fatal incident. The hearing was told that cops were responding to reports of a break-in when they spotted the Golf, which accelerated away.
Tragically, the inquest heard that the first officer to arrive at the scene of the reported burglary found "no evidence of anything untoward" in the area. Despite this, Shae was the subject of toxic comments claiming that he "deserved" what happened to him.
Speaking to the Record's sister paper the Manchester Evening News, Shae's father Malcolm Marlow said the family felt "vindicated" by the admission that there was no incident "blackening" his son's name. The family had insisted for months that there was no connection between the alleged incident and Shae's being in the area.
Malcolm said: "It has been two years fighting for this. It blackened his name and we've had comments from people saying he deserved what happened which hurt beyond belief.
"My son wasn't a burglar. There was no burglary.
"All he was guilty of was driving under age. He did make a mistake getting into that car, we own that.
"But he was 16. He has seen the police and he has panicked."
The inquest heard that police