The owners of a trampoline park where 11 people broke their backs in the opening seven weeks have escaped with just a fine and community service.
David Elliot Shuttleworth, 34, and Matthew Melling, 34, were the directors of Flip Out Chester which opened on 10 December 2016. By February 3 there had been 270 people injured, 123 of those through knee-to-face contact, while others had suffered broken wrists, ankles and ribs. The relentless wave of injuries became such a concern to the local hospital, the Countess of Chester, that a delegation of clinicians visited the venue to find out what was going on.
Just because you don't have a wheelchair doesn't mean your life hasn't been severely impacted."I feel like they got off lightly. If they were actually sorry they'd do an awful lot more than pretend it's impacted their life because it hasn't the way it's impacted everyone else.
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