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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Lyell Tweed

Police officers should have stopped high speed chase which ended in teen's death, jury says

A high-speed police chase which ended in the death of a teenage boy should have been stopped, an inquest jury has concluded.

Thomas Patrick Connor, 19, known as Tull, was driving when his Vauxhall Astra van was being chased by officers from GMP, who mistakenly believed it had been involved in a burglary.

The van ploughed into a railway bridge on Red Bank in Manchester city centre in 2019, killing Mr Connor. His family had raised concerns about whether the decision to continue with a chase was proportionate, particularly after the van had developed a flat tyre.

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