Failure to charge suspect over boy’s drowning in Welsh river ‘irrational’, court told

Mother of Christopher Kapessa, 13, who died after allegedly being pushed into water, challenging CPS in judicial review

The decision not to prosecute a teenager accused of pushing a 13-year-old boy into a river was legally flawed and unreasonable or irrational, a court has heard.

Christopher Kapessa drowned after he was allegedly pushed into the River Cynon in south Wales by a 14-year-old boy in July 2019. In July 2020 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that although there was evidence to support a prosecution for manslaughter, it had decided it was not in the public interest to do so for what it described as a “foolish prank”.

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