{"id":113736,"date":"2026-05-01T15:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/driver-who-drove-into-tea-party-outside-a-london-school-charged-over-deaths-of-two-girls\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:41:08","slug":"driver-who-drove-into-tea-party-outside-a-london-school-charged-over-deaths-of-two-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/driver-who-drove-into-tea-party-outside-a-london-school-charged-over-deaths-of-two-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver who drove into tea party outside a London school charged over deaths of two girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-headline\">\n<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \"><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ \">A woman who drove a Land Rover into a tea party at a London primary school and killed two 8-year-old girls has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">London &#8212; <\/span>A woman who drove a Land Rover into a tea party outside a London primary school celebrating the last day of classes in 2023, killing two 8-year-old girls and injuring several others, was charged with dangerous driving on Friday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors said they decided to charge Claire Freemantle, 49, with two counts of dangerous driving causing death and seven counts of dangerous driving causing serious injury after the Metropolitan Police reopened their investigation and found new evidence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The London police force initially apologized for the way it handled the accident and said it had referred its officers to a watchdog agency investigating police misconduct. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Freemantle was not originally charged because prosecutors said he had suffered an epileptic seizure. He issued a statement expressing his &#8220;deep sorrow&#8221; but said he had no recollection of what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Defense lawyers questioned why prosecutors reversed their original decision not to charge Freemantle and said she would plead not guilty when she appears for the first time at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on 16 June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It is not clear what new evidence police found, but the reinvestigation follows complaints from the parents of Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau, who were killed in the incident outside the private Study Preparatory School in Wimbledon, south London, on July 6, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The driver broke through a fence and entered the side of a school building. More than a dozen people were treated for injuries at the scene and 10, including several students, were taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who drove a Land Rover into a tea party at a London primary school and killed two 8-year-old girls has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving. 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