UK’s largest pub company guilty of health and safety breach after student death

Jury finds Stonegate Pub Company guilty after heavy decorative screen fell on Olivia Burt in Durham

The UK's largest pub company has been found guilty of breaching health and safety law after the senseless and avoidable" death of a first-year university student who was queuing to get into a busy venue.

Olivia Burt, a 20-year-old life sciences student at Durham University, died in February 2018 when a heavy decorative screen being used to manage the queue into the city centre's Missoula bar collapsed and fell on her.