A request for a judicial review into a coroner's conclusion that the drowning of a 12-year-old Somali refugee was accidental has been dismissed by a High Court judge. Shukri Abdi, 12, died after getting into difficulties in the river in Bury during a heatwave in June 2019.
Following an inquest held in 2020, Coroner Joanne Kearsley ruled that on the ‘balance of probabilities’ Shukri died as a result of an accidental death. Last month her family went to the High Court in Manchester to challenge her conclusion, claiming it was a 'flawed' verdict.
Now a senior High Court judge has dismissed the application for a judicial review, concluding: "I have been unable to find any arguable ground for judicial review having any realistic prospect of success."
