{"id":85317,"date":"2022-10-05T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=85317"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:20:48","slug":"teacher-admits-not-knowing-swimming-guidelines-when-girl-drowned-on-school-trip-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/teacher-admits-not-knowing-swimming-guidelines-when-girl-drowned-on-school-trip-to-france","title":{"rendered":"Teacher admits not knowing swimming guidelines when girl drowned on school trip to France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British teacher supervising a school trip to France when a 12-year-old girl drowned did not know the swimming guidelines, he has told a court. Jessica Lawson died when a pontoon capsized in a lake near Limoges during the trip in July 2015. Teachers Steven Layne, Chantelle Lewis and Daisy Stathers from Wolfreton School in Willerby, near Hull , are accused of the French equivalent of manslaughter by gross negligence along with lifeguard Leo Lemaire and the local authority in Liginiac. Mr Layne was asked through an interpreter what the&nbsp;guidelines&nbsp;were for accompanying children on swimming trips in the UK, before being questioned on whether he knew the&nbsp;guidelines&nbsp;for France. He told the court he did not know and had not asked. &#8220;We checked with the lifeguard and we concluded the conditions were OK,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When I spoke to the students, I did say they could use the pontoon but I told them in using it they weren&#8217;t to do any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British teacher supervising a school trip to France when a 12-year-old girl drowned did not know the swimming guidelines, he has told a court.Jessica Lawson died when a pontoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-85317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}