Ten years after the death of 5-year-old Mason Jones from E. coli O157:H7, Lord Justice of Appeal Patrick Elias has decided to let the 2010 inquest into the boy’s death stand. Elias found there was “no error in law” during the inquest in which William Tudor, owner of the Tudor and Sons butcher shop in Bridgend, Wales, admitted food safety violations. The butcher shop supplied 40 schools in south Wales with contaminated meat, which sickened 160 people in the E. coli outbreak that took Mason’s life. Tudor served one year in jail in 2007 for seven separate violations of Welsh food hygiene regulations. However, at the time, the Crown Prosecution Service did not think there was enough evidence to charge the butcher with manslaughter.
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