Dad sobs ‘it’s not f****** fair’ as he reveals horror moment he ran over and killed son, 3, with ‘broken farm vehicle’
Dad sobs ‘it’s not f****** fair’ as he reveals horror moment he ran over and killed son, 3, with ‘broken farm vehicle’
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A HORRIFIED dad sobbed as he recounted the moment he ran over and killed his three-year-old son with a "broken" farm vehicle, a court heard. Little Albie suffered catastrophic head injuries in the horror at 39-year-old dad Neil Speakman's farm in Bury, Greater Manchester.
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The collision happened in a yard next to a small garden area at the front of the farmhouse in Bentley Hall Road, Walshaw. Albie had been playing unsupervised in a small garden when he wandered into the "unfenced" area where Speakman was working. Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court was told that Neil was driving a borrowed telehandler machine that was missing a wing mirror amid various other defects.
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Speakman denies gross negligence manslaughter. Giving evidence at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court today, Speakman told jurors that because the telehandler had a missing wing mirror he would "check profusely" for blind spots but he did not see his son.
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He said: "I am always careful in what I do. He was my little boy.". Wiping away tears, he added: "I shouldn't have to do this. It's f****** not fair.". Asked to describe what happened next, he said: "You felt a bump instantly. I had travelled 10cm, 20cm...I stopped instantly. It was a split second.
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"I looked right and saw his legs, and jumped off.". Speakman told his barrister Alexander Leach KC that he was "more than competent" at driving his neighbour's telehandler, which he said he had used "200/300 times easily". He said: "I looked over both shoulders a number of times, I have gone fully round, 180 degrees.
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