Police Review Continues Into White Victim of Non-White Dangerous Driving Who Died 9 Years Later

Birmingham Mail
November 5, 2015

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Cerys Edwards was left permanently paralysed and needing round-the-clock care, after a non-White driver crashed into her family car.

Police are continuing a review into the case against a speeding driver who left Cerys Edwards with catastrophic injuries – which may have caused her death nine years later.

Detectives say a post mortem has now taken place to establish if there was a “causal link” between the November 2006 crash and her passing earlier this month.

Cerys was left paralysed, unable to speak, and requiring round-the-clock care after Antonio Boparan’s Range Rover smashed into her family’s car in Sutton Coldfield.

Boparan, now aged 28, was convicted of dangerous driving in 2008. He could have faced up to 14 years in prison if she had died at the time of the collision.

But instead he served just six months of a 21-month sentence after being found guilty of dangerous driving.

The Crown Prosecution Service said it would need a new file from police before considering if to pursue a charge of causing death by dangerous driving against Boparan.

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The police review will determine whether Cerys Edwards’ death was due to the dangerous driving of Antonio Boparan nine years earlier.

A West Midlands Police statement has now said: “A post-mortem was carried out on Tuesday, October 27, and has revealed that further investigation is needed to establish if there is a causal link between the collision and Cerys’s death.

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