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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Katie Dickinson

Council failings led to incident which saw boy, 12, kill foster carer with car

Marcia Grant (South Yorkshire Police) - (PA Media)

Failings by a local council contributed to circumstances around the death of a grandmother who was killed when a 12-year-old boy she was fostering ran her over with her own car, a coroner has found.

Marcia Grant, 60, had been working as a foster carer for seven years when she suffered catastrophic injuries as she tried to stop the boy taking her car outside her home in the Greenhill area of Sheffield on April 5 2023.

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