I’m still there and I have to be without him now forever.” Albie was just three-years-old when he was hit by a defective telehandler driven by his dad Neil Speakman - Leah’s ex-partner - at his farm in Bury.
Leah, a nursery practitioner at the nursery Albie attended, said the hours, days and weeks that followed were a blur.
Mum of boy, 3, run over by dad on tractor gives birth to baby boy but 'can't move on' When Leah Bridge gave birth to her second son Ebon, it should have been one of the happiest days of her life.
He admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, having ‘[failed] to ensure the health and safety of Albie, so far as is reasonably practical’, but denied gross negligence manslaughter.
She said she and her family have been left heartbroken by the verdict.“I feel as though Albie has been let down,” she said.
