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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tom Wilkinson

Death of student, 20, outside club ‘senseless and avoidable’, court told

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A student’s death when she was crushed by a decorative screen while queuing outside a nightclub has been called “senseless and avoidable” by prosecutors.

Olivia Burt, a 20-year-old life sciences first year student at Durham University, suffered severe head injuries outside Missoula bar in the city in February 2018.

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