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10.11.2023 - 16:45 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A funfair owner has been jailed after an exploding trampoline caused a three-year-old girl's death.
Curt Johnson has been sentenced to six months in jail as he admitted breaching safety regulations after Ava-May Littleboy was thrown higher than a house when the inflatable exploded. The horror incident came while the toddler was enjoying a day out with her family at Gorleston-on-Sea, in Norfolk, on July 1, 2018.
As reported by the Mirror, her aunt Abbie watched on as the tot flipped over five or six times before hitting the ground, which resulted in a fatal head injury. The little girl's parents Chloe Littleboy and Nathan Rowe rushed to her side, but Ava-May could not be resuscitated and died in hospital.
An inquest into her death in 2020, heard Ava-May, from Lower Somersham in Suffolk, was at the beach and was taken onto the trampoline. District judge Christopher Williams, sentencing on Friday, said inflatable owner Johnson was "wilfully blind to the risk" and that the inflatable "should not have been in use".
He said: "This is a case that's of such seriousness that I have to conclude a deterrent sentence is necessary."
The judge, jailing Johnson for six months, said: "I reflect on the suffering and anguish the family have been through. Ultimately a child unnecessarily lost their life because of failures on your part to ensure you had appropriate risk assessments in place."
Ava-May's parents, who sat in the public gallery, hugged after the sentence was passed as wider members of the family wiped tears from their eyes. Johnson, 52, showed no reaction a he was led to the cells.
The judge also disqualified Johnson from being a company director for five years and fined Johnsons Funfair Ltd £20,000. He awarded the full costs to
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