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An inquest into the 2018 helicopter crash that killed the proprietor of Leicester City Football Club opened on Monday. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and 4 others had been killed when the Thai billionaire’s private helicopter crashed shortly after taking off from the Premier League membership’s King Power Stadium following a match in October 2018. Catherine Mason, the coroner presiding over the listening to, advised the jury that beneath English regulation the position of an inquest is solely to find out the info over how somebody died moderately than make rulings on particular person guilt or innocence.
“An inquest hears proof so the jury could make findings of reality and are available to a conclusion in regards to the deaths,” mentioned Mason, sitting at Leicester City Hall. “Nobody is on trial right here.
“An inquest doesn’t determine issues of legal or civil legal responsibility,” added Mason, who additionally mentioned the listening to was anticipated to final for between two and three weeks.
In a tribute learn to the court docket by the lawyer for the household of Srivaddhanaprabha, he was described as “an excellent man with an excellent coronary heart”.
The household assertion additionally paid tribute to his position in reviving Leicester’s fortunes and bankrolling their shock Premier League title triumph in 2016 after the Midlands membership had been 5,000/1 rank outsiders to be topped champions of England at the beginning of that season.
“Khun Vichai had a imaginative and prescient to the put the membership within the Premier League. He wished to construct the membership up, not simply run it.
“With his assist and dedication the workforce gained the Premier League in 2016 — in solely their second yr within the division.
“We miss him every single day. The ache his demise triggered and continues to trigger our household is immeasurable.”
In a separate growth, the household introduced final week that they had launched a 2.15 billion pound ($2.63 billion) authorized motion towards the producers of the helicopter, in what’s reported to be the biggest deadly accident declare in English historical past.
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