More than eight years after her death, the boyfriend of a Whitley Bay woman who died after an accident at a motorbike race called for more to be done to protect spectators like his "outgoing, bubbly, and positive" partner, the North Wales Daily Post reports
Judith Garrett, 29, died a day after the incident, where she was hit by an out-of-control mountain bike at a bike race in Llangollen, Denbighshire on August 31 2014. The Prudhoe-born woman had been there to watch boyfriend Peter Walton compete.
The couple had been living with Peter's family in Whitley Bay at the time of Judith's death. Now, speaking at an inquest at Ruthin County Hall in Denbighshire, North Wales, Mr Walton - an experienced downhill racer - told a coroner more needs to be done to prevent spectators from standing in exclusion zones. He argued that people should not have been allowed to stand where Judith was stood at the time of her death.
