Scout Association apologises for death of teenager in 200ft fall, inquest told
The Scout Association has for the first time publicly apologised and accepted responsibility for the death of a teenager who fell on a trip – but his tearful mother told a court it was five-and-a-half years too late and the treatment of her family had been “disgusting”.
Ben Leonard, 16, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, was on an organised expedition with the Reddish Explorer Scouts on August 26 2018 when he suffered a serious head injury after falling 200 feet from cliffs on the Great Orme in North Wales.
