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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tom Wilkinson

Queuing student died when ‘unsuitable’ screen collapsed outside club, court told

PA Media

A student died outside a bar run by the UK’s biggest pub owners when an “unsuitable” decorative screen used to manage the queue fell and collapsed on her, a court has heard.

Olivia Burt, a first year at Durham University, died of severe head injuries she sustained outside Missoula, a busy nightclub in the city centre owned by the Stonegate Pub Company, while on a night out in 2018.

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