A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the alleged murder of Kevan Doyle in Wishaw.
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A retired primary school teacher died 18 months after she tripped over a raised water grid on a pavement during her daily coronavirus lockdown walk with her husband.
Now the family of grandmother-of-three Liz Taylor, who was 68, say they can't get council bosses to consider lowering the grid's height to protect others.
They said they tried at the time of her fall, but were told by the council after an inspection that its height didn't meet 'investigatory levels' set out in highways safety policies. The grid remains exactly the same to this day.
The family claim they were told by the council the water main stop cover was just two millimetres short of being too high off the pavement to qualify to be altered under its inspection regulations.
Mrs Taylor, who was married to her husband, Arthur, for 46 years, fell on Craiglands in Balderstone, Rochdale, near their home on October 10, 2020. She returned home but was rushed by ambulance to hospital that night having suffered a 'traumatic brain injury'.
Her daughter, Helen Wild, said she had an emergency craniotomy after a CT scan showed bleeding and clots on the surface of her brain, together with 'significant brain swelling'.
She said her family were told she might not survive the surgery. She did, but never fully recovered, and passed away in hospital after being admitted from a nursing home on May 4 this year. Mrs Wild, 38, has spoken out after a coroner found a link between her death and the fall.
At an inquest held at Rochdale coroners' court on August 2, area coroner Catherine McKenna recorded a conclusion that Mrs Taylor, who lived on nearby Hurst Meadow, 'died from complications which arose following an injury sustained in a fall', saying she 'sustained a traumatic
A man has been arrested and charged in connection with the alleged murder of Kevan Doyle in Wishaw.
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