In 2021, police launched an investigation into suspected corporate manslaughter in relation to how DFI managed access to the drain network.
A final decision not to prosecute a Stormont department for corporate manslaughter over the death of schoolboy Noah Donohoe has been taken, a court has heard.
In 2022, the PSNI passed a file onto the Public Prosecution Service which decided not to pursue charges against the department.Providing an update to court on Thursday, counsel to the coroner Peter Coll KC said a letter had been sent from the PPS to the coroner’s service on October 25 “relating to the finalisation of the decision not to prosecute DFI”. A spokesperson for the PPS confirmed the original decision not to prosecute had been upheld.
“All the evidence was considered solely from the perspective of whether any action by the department amounted to criminal conduct.” “We assured Ms Donohoe that the decision was taken only after the most careful and impartial consideration of all the available evidence, the circumstances of the case and all relevant legal issues.”
During a previous hearing, Ms Campbell said an expert had discovered the image and it raised the prospect that the phone had been in the possession of someone else after Noah went missing. The inquest into Noah’s death was originally scheduled to take place last year but was then delayed after a ruling that it should proceed with a jury, following an application from Ms Donohoe.
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