Pub group fined £1.56m over death of student hit by screen at Durham bar

Stonegate Pub Company was found guilty of health and safety breach after death of Olivia Burt, who was injured in queue outside

A judge has fined the UK's largest pub group 1.56m after it was found guilty of a health and safety breach which contributed to the senseless and avoidable" death of a first-year university student queueing to get into a venue in Durham.

Olivia Burt, a 20-year-old natural sciences student from Milford on Sea in the New Forest, 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.