In a 10-page ruling, Sir Geoffrey Vos, sitting with Lord Justice Underhill and Lady Justice Nicola Davies, allowed the appeal and awarded Ms Young further damages, stating that Ms Young’s “psychiatric injuries were caused by the events that she witnessed”.
At a hearing earlier this month, at which Downey was not represented and did not attend, lawyers for Ms Young told the Court of Appeal that the judge was wrong to find that Ms Young had not shown that she appreciated her father was involved in the explosion as a child at the time.
Royal Household Cavalry men Squadron Quartermaster Corporal Roy Bright, 36; Lieutenant Dennis Daly, 23; Trooper Simon Tipper, 19; and L/Cpl Young were killed by a car bomb as they rode through the central London park to attend the Changing of the Guard.
Sarah Jane Young was four when she heard the explosion near the Knightsbridge barracks in central London which killed her father, 19-year-old Lance Corporal Jeffrey Young.
Deciding what damages should be awarded the following year, Mr Justice Spencer acknowledged that her post-traumatic stress disorder had “blighted her life” but dismissed her claim for damages for psychiatric injury.
