Alpine Mountaineering Pay-up (26 Sep 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The family of Michael Matthews, 22, who in 1999 became the youngest Briton to climb Everest has finally been awarded £70,000 damages for his death (they had waited four years due to a wall-of-silence) while using faulty oxygen equipment during the descent.
Alpine Mountaineering (IGO 8000), the expedition organiser, its director, Jonathan Tinker, and a guide Michael Smith, agreed a deal at the \High Court Birmingham. A fourth defendant, Henry barclay Todd, is being sought. The family are now contemplating a private criminal prosecution against Todd who supplied the oxygen equipment.
Category : Court Cases
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David Matthews ‘private criminal prosecution’ failed in 2007 when ‘just one man’ thought it not unusual that many people; climbers should complain about the oxygen equipment that they had hired should fail; oxygen equipment that had been illegaly de-canted in India. The Judge, whilst sympathetic, thought it not unusual…