A man died as a result of a brain injury that he received when he was pushed from his wheelchair 11 years earlier, an inquest has heard. Stevie Dainton was left ‘profoundly disabled’ after the incident at Bolton’s Birtenshaw Hall School in May 2009.
Stevie was born with cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair to get around, his dad Gary Dainton told Bolton Coroner’s Court. Mr Dainton described Stevie as “very pleasant, outgoing and happy” growing up and said that he lived at home but would occasionally stay overnight at Birtenshaw, in Bromley Cross, if he had attended an after school club.
On May 5 2009, a fellow pupil, referred to as Boy 2 in court, pushed Stevie from his wheelchair. Stevie, who was 19-years-old at the time, suffered a traumatic brain injury and required 24 hour care from that point on.
