{"id":23557,"date":"2026-02-20T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23557"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:56:16","slug":"uk-athletics-pleads-guilty-to-corporate-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23557","title":{"rendered":"UK Athletics pleads guilty to corporate manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">UK Athletics has pleaded guilty to the corporate manslaughter of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hayayei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/disability-sport\/40577419\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">died aged 36 after a metal cage fell on him<\/a> while training at Newham Leisure Centre, London in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5yre8xx25eo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">pleaded not guilty to the charge in March 2025<\/a> but entered a fresh plea on Friday at an Old Bailey hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keith Davies, the head of sport for the 2017 World Para-athletics Championships, also pleaded guilty to a health and safety charge, having previously denied gross negligence manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutor Karen Robinson asked the court to set a two-day sentencing hearing in early June, confirming the prosecution would not seek a trial and the outstanding charges would be dealt with at the conclusion of the sentencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies, 78, was granted continued bail on the condition he liaise with the Probation Service for a pre-sentence report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c0ljn0z94n5o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Athletics has pleaded guilt&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}