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The Bexleyheath, Welling & Crayford Chronicle October 2008
32 pages
Publié par
Stone Leisure
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A Bexleyheath schoolgirl who received
excruciating back and neck injuries after a selfdefence class was held in a classroom without
safety mats has been given compensation.
Tanya Malone was a year 10 student at St
Catherine’s Catholic...
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A Bexleyheath schoolgirl who received
excruciating back and neck injuries after a selfdefence class was held in a classroom without
safety mats has been given compensation.
Tanya Malone was a year 10 student at St
Catherine’s Catholic School for Girls,
Bexleyheath, Kent, when she was injured in a fall
with the class instructor in January 2005.
The incident happened when the female
instructor, working for an independent contractor,
was demonstrating a manoeuvre while holding
Tanya, now 19, in a headlock.
The instructor lost
her footing, falling heavily and sandwiching Tanya
between her weight and the carpeted concrete
floor.
An ambulance had to be called and Tanya was
taken to hospital on a spinal board with her neck
in a brace where she underwent scans.
She
suffered ongoing back problems after the accident
and had to undergo several sessions of osteopathy
to cure muscle and ligament damage, injuries she
only recently overcame fully.
The pain disrupted Tanya’s GCSE studies and she
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