Johnathan Armour, Emily Jordan’s boyfriend (see today gave evidence via video link from the UK to the court hearing in New Zealand. He criticised the safety briefing given to the couple prior to their river boarding experience, saying if he’d been better informed about the possible dangers he wouldn’t have gone. According to the Otago…
As I predicted on Friday a deal was struck in the trial of Mcleod and the Mad Dog River boarding company in connection with the death of British tourist Emily Jordan, before the defence presented its case. Despite the trial going well a shocking three charges against McLeod and one against the company were dropped…
Picture Birmingham Mail From ODT 21 August “Allegations a company did not have an “industry standard” safe operational plan and was “irresponsible” for not carrying a rope were some of the issues discussed at length by Maritime New Zealand’s whitewater sports expert witness in the Queenstown District Court yesterday. In the prosecution following the death…
ODT 20 August “A whitewater sports expert has told a Queenstown court hearing that a rescue rope could have saved the life of a young English woman who drowned while riverboarding in the Kawarau Gorge last year. The belief that ropes and knives could become hazards themselves in white-water situations was “ill-informed and uneducated”, a…
Johnathan Armour, Emily Jordan’s boyfriend (see ‘British woman Emily Jordan’s death‘ and ‘Emily Jordan not briefed on how to escape’) today gave evidence via video link from the UK to the court hearing in New Zealand. He criticised the safety briefing given to the couple prior to their river boarding experience, saying if he’d been…
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