Dianne Willmore dies the day after winning her asbestos appeal
The day after the Royal Courts of Justice upheld the verdict that Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council negligently exposed Dianne Willmore to asbestos at school when she was a child, the teacher passed away. She had earlier been awarded £240,000 by the High Court in Liverpool.
Michael Lees, an asbestos activist and widower whose late wife, Gina died of mesothelioma in 2000, said \”[Dianne] died in the knowledge that her family have been provided for. The Appeal Judges accepted that the level of exposure was causative. They also accepted that in 1972 the Council and the school authorities knew about the dangers of asbestos, they therefore had a duty to prevent the disturbance of asbestos materials in the schools, the release of asbestos fibres and the exposure of the occupants. They failed in that duty. This has profound implications.\”
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