A judge has fined the UK’s largest pub group £1.56m after it was found guilty of a health and safety breach which contributed to the “senseless and avoidable” death of a first-year university student queueing to get into a venue in Durham.
Olivia Burt, a 20-year-old natural sciences student from Milford on Sea in the New Forest, died in February 2018 when a heavy decorative screen being used to manage the queue into the city centre’s Missoula bar collapsed and fell on her.
