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Coroner says May Day event should be better managed after Laura Smallwood, 34, died in accident involving ‘obby oss’
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Coroner says May Day event should be better managed after Laura Smallwood, 34, died in accident involving ‘obby oss’
Andrew Cox will report to the Government his concerns about events not being compelled to have an organiser and also the police's lack of powers to stop them.
Laura Smallwood, 34, died in hospital three days after she was struck in the back of the head by the wooden framed horse - known as an 'Obby 'Oss' - an inquest heard.
Laura Smallwood, 34, died three days after she fell unconscious shortly after being hit in the neck by a costume at the 'Obby 'Oss festival in Padstow, Cornwall
Coroner seeks to establish if injuries Laura Smallwood sustained from an ‘obby oss’ caused her death