Cyclist charged with manslaughter after death

[thelawnet]

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/1477023 ... h_cyclist/

"Royal Navy veteran Roy Galvin, from Alverstoke, in Gosport was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth following the incident in Bury Road, Gosport, on Sunday.

The 69-year-old had been with his wife Deborah, who was in a wheelchair, when the argument broke out with a cyclist during which he was allegedly pushed over and hit his head on the road.

Mr Galvin was treated for a serious head injury but died on Wednesday morning."

"A Hampshire Police spokesman said: "We can now confirm that sadly the 69-year-old man who hit his head on the road following a dispute on the one-way system on Bury Road in Gosport at around 5.50pm on Sunday (September 25) has died."

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/1476419 ... heelchair/
"A PENSIONER was attacked and pushed into a road while walking with his wife, who was in a wheelchair at the time of the incident."

It appears perhaps he was cycling on the pavement against the one-way street, hence the altercation.

This report suggests not in fact a wheelchair but a motorised scooter

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/ ... -1-7602405

Previous (2010):
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/commun ... -1-2303169

[Heltor Chasca]

Why a 'cyclist'? Why not a criminal who was riding a bike?

An awful tragedy and I'm sorry the world works in this way sometimes.

[The utility cyclist]

He was a pedestrian at the time of the incident not a person on a bike, just to be accurate. this should not in any way stand up as a death by a cyclist statistic if found guilty.