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Lucy ManningSpecial correspondent
Selana Lau's family
Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau were killed successful July 2023
The operator of the car which crashed into the grounds of a south-west London schoolhouse sidesplitting 2 eight-year-old girls has appeared successful court.
Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died aft a Land Rover driven by Claire Freemantle crashed into an end-of-term beverage enactment connected the tract of The Study Preparatory School successful Wimbledon connected 6 July 2023.
Freemantle appeared astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court, wherever she faced 2 charges of causing decease by unsafe driving and 7 counts of causing superior wounded to different parents and children.
The parents of Nuria and Selena and others who were injured that time were successful the nationalist assemblage to witnesser the 49-year-old's archetypal tribunal appearance.
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Claire Freemantle was granted bail astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court and is owed to look successful tribunal again astatine the Old Bailey connected 14 July
The defendant, who spoke lone to corroborate her name, code and day of birth, is accused of injuring Nuria's parent Smera Chohan, 2 different adults, 2 eight-year-olds, a seven-year-old and a seven-month-old.
Freemantle, of Edge Hill, Wimbledon, was charged successful May aft a erstwhile probe by the Metropolitan Police ended successful 2024 with prosecutors deciding they would not complaint her aft they said she had suffered an undiagnosed epileptic seizure.
The constabulary watchdog is presently investigating 11 Met Police officers implicit their handling of the archetypal investigation.
Nuria was described by her household aft the clang arsenic "a bright, feisty, miss who had a zest for life".
Selena's household said she was "an intelligent and cheeky miss who was adored and loved by everyone".
Freemantle's lawyers person antecedently said she volition plead not blameworthy to each the charges. She was granted bail and volition look successful tribunal again astatine the Old Bailey connected 14 July.
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