'My boy fell 200ft to his death, then they tried to say it was his fault'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

He had gone on a trip with the Scouts to north Wales with friends. His mum thought he would be safe and waved him goodbye as they took off to Llandudno - but he never returned.

Ben Leonard tragically fell to his death at the Great Orme, in Llandudno, during the trip in August 2018. After taking a different path with two friends unsupervised, the 16-year-old ended up on a 50cm ledge and lost his footing, plunging down 200ft and was left with a serious head injury.

The youngster from Reddish had just learned he had done well in his GCSEs at Denton Community College and he had enrolled to study film-making at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays - but never got to live out his dreams.

Following a two-month inquest last year at Manchester Civil Courts of Justice, a jury found Ben was unlawfully killed by the most senior Scout leader on the trip, and an assistant Scout leader, and that this was contributed to by neglect by The Scout Association.