A high-speed police chase which led to the death of two friends was 'legitimate and proportionate', an inquest jury has concluded.
An inquest into the deaths of Patrick 'Paddy' Connor, and Thomas 'Tommy' Sharp - popular members of the traveller community - returned a narrative conclusion. Jurors found neither were wearing a seatbelt when they crashed head on into a taxi on September 23, 2020, and Tommy, the driver, was over the legal drink-drive limit.
Tommy, 29, was driving a Mercedes C Class with Paddy, 36, riding in the passenger seat when they crashed head-on into an Uber taxi. That came after a high speed police chase along two main Salford roads, Lower Broughton Road and Frederick Road.
