Owner Jailed After Inflatable Trampoline Explosion Kills Three-Year-Old Girl

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Ava-May Littleboy was thrown into the air when the equipment failed.

Ava-May Littleboy was thrown into the air when the equipment failed The owner of an inflatable trampoline which exploded, killing a three-year-old girl, has been jailed for six months for health and safety offences. Ava-May Littleboy was thrown into the air when the equipment failed on Gorleston beach in Norfolk, with a witness saying she went the ‘height of a house’, Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court heard.

Police cordon at Gorleston beach in Norfolk Both Johnson and the company, for which he acted as operations manager, admitted to importing an inflatable trampoline that they failed to ensure was safe. They also both pleaded guilty to failing to ensure people not in their employment were not exposed to risks. Mr Bates said the inflatable trampoline was a ‘sealed unit’ but ‘had no safety valve to release pressure’.

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