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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Josh Payne

Teachers felt pain ‘similar’ to family after girl, 12, drowned, lawyer claims

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British teachers who were supervising a school trip where a 12-year-old girl drowned felt pain “similar” to her family, a lawyer has told a French court.

Steven Layne, Chantelle Lewis and Daisy Stathers are accused of the French equivalent of manslaughter by gross negligence after Jessica Lawson died when a pontoon capsized in a lake near Limoges in July 2015.

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