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Farming business fined after woman killed in cow attack
Date of alert:
Monday, 18 December 2023
Crime Ref:
Force:
Northumbria Police
A farming business has been fined after a woman was killed after being butted several times by a cow.
61-year-old Marian Clode was on a family walk in April of 2016 with the attack occurred on a public bridleway in Northumberland. Clode died in hospital three days later.
On Friday December 15 at Newcastle Crown Court, J M Nixon & Son, Swinhoe Farm, of Belford, Northumberland pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
The company was fined £72,500 and ordered to pay £34,700 in costs.
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