{"id":24824,"date":"2025-01-09T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/abdullah-hayayei-uk-athletics-charged-with-manslaughter-after-paralympians-death\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:56:06","slug":"abdullah-hayayei-uk-athletics-charged-with-manslaughter-after-paralympians-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/abdullah-hayayei-uk-athletics-charged-with-manslaughter-after-paralympians-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdullah Hayayei: UK Athletics charged with manslaughter after Paralympian&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">UK Athletics has been charged with manslaughter over the death of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hayayei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/disability-sport\/40577419\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">died aged 36 after a metal cage fell on him<\/a> while training at Newham Leisure Centre, London in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has charged UK Athletics Limited with &#8220;corporate manslaughter and a health and safety at work act offence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keith Davies, the head of sport for the 2017 World Para-athletics Championships, has also been charged with &#8220;gross negligence manslaughter and a health and safety at work act offence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK Athletics and Davies, 77, will appear at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on 31 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hayayei was training for the World Championships in London at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The United Arab Emirates thrower had been set to compete in the F34 shot put, discus and javelin events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hayayei, a father of five, finished sixth in the javelin and seventh in the shot put when making his Paralympic debut at Rio 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London 2017 was due to be his second appearance at a World Championships. At the 2015 event in Doha, Qatar, Hayayei finished fifth in the discus and eighth in the shot put.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A moment of silence was held in honour of Hayayei during the opening ceremony of the World Championships at London Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c05p5md9gzlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Athletics has been charged with manslaughter over the death of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei. Hayayei died aged 36 after a metal cage fell on him while training at Newham Leisure Centre, London in July 2017. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has charged UK Athletics Limited with &#8220;corporate manslaughter and a health and safety at work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24826,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824\/revisions\/24826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}