Long delay to retrial in death crash case
David Hurst, 52, of Diamond Street in Leigh, faced a Bolton Crown Court jury in February for causing Ghulam Rasul’s death by careless driving but it couldn’t reach even a majority verdict acceptable to the judge.
The trial was told 74-year-old pedestrian Mr Rasul was badly injured when in collision with a motorbike at Market Place’s junction with Lord Street on September 10 2018 and died two days later in hospital.
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Hide AdA hearing was later held at which prosecutors said they wished to press the charge again and a retrial date for September 14 was set.
But since then a huge backlog of cases has built up due to Covid-19 and August 23 2021 has now been set for a new trial.
However, it was stated that attempts would be made to bring the date forward in the interests of all parties.