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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16 1989 3 NEWS driver saw Clapham train about to crash By David Graves A TERRIFIED train driver dashed from the cab of one of the Clapham disaster trains after spotting the approaching collision but was crushed to death seconds later an inquest jury heard yesterday The hearing at Westminster Court into the deaths of 35 people in the disaster was told he would not have had time to warn passengers of the danger The jury was told how 49- pie injuries His body was later Ex- JP cleared of charity swindle after sums error By Terence Shaw Legal Correspondent A CROWN COURT judge called for an inquiry by the Crown Prosecution Service after the trial of a former magistrate and two of her daughters on charges of milking money from a charity collapsed yesterday The prosecution admitted that its key witness an accountant had got his sums wrong After a five-day trial at Marquesa in bank scandal separates from husband By Tim Brown in Madrid MARTA CHAVARRI the marquesa involved in the sex and banking scandal in Spain has separated from her husband The Marques and Marquesa de Cubas were granted a legal separation by the Madrid matrimonial court after declaring they had agreed to part The marques head of the Royal Spanish Automobile Club was granted custody of the five-year-old son Alvaro and agreed to pay his wife a monthly allowance of about £500 Father and son will continue to live in the matrimonial home after the marquesa has moved out to share a flat with a woman friend The separation is the latest episode in Dynasty-style drama Meanwhile the magazine In-terviu which has published explicit photographs of the marquesa continues to sell record numbers The current issue shows the marquesa at a Madrid night spot last summer wearing nothing under her mini-skirt except see-through tights sitting on a sofa The marquesa is said to be having an affair with Alberto Cortina one of richest men Their reported liaison was exposed when they were photographed leaving a hotel in Vienna last month wife Alicia has ordered him out of their home and withdrawn his right of attorney over her fortune estimated at £750 million Cortina ahd his cousin Alberto Alcocer said to be worth £40 million each and known to the banking community as Los Gaberdinos after a rare press photograph showed them together in raincoats are Living apart: Alicia and Alberto Cortina said to be the lover found under the third carriage Mr John Rolls who was driving the train was also killed The inquest which will continue today is being confined to hearing medical evidence of how the victims died and where they were seated or standing when they were killed Twenty two of the 35 cases were reopened and adjourned yesterday until after publication of the report of the public inquiry into the disaster which begins in London on Monday The remainder of the cases will be reopened today Verdicts will be returned after the report has been issued Dr Paul Knapman the coroner heard that all of the victims involved in inquests yesterday were passengers in the first carriage of the Poole train which was virtually destroyed in the crash They died instantly many from severe head injuries Some had been thrown a considerable distance by the impact of the collision Dr Knapman also adjourned yesterday the inquests on Mr James Beasant 32 of Winchester Mr Steven Loader 34 of Chandlers Ford Hants Mr Clive Attfield 34 of Bournemouth Mr Geoffrey Hartwell 35 of Southampton Miss Jane Aubin 26 of Streatham south London Warrant Officer Erroll Taylor 42 of Upton near Poole Mrs Michele Boyce 44 of Poole Mr Stephen Hopkins 27 of Poole Mr Joseph Martin 41 of Southampton Mr John Barrett 38 of Southampton Mrs Alma Smith 53 of Soqthampton Mr Paul Perry-Lewis 49 of Bournemouth Mr David Thomas 51 of Southampton Mrs Teresa Moore 28 of Bournemouth Mr Timothy Burgess 33 of Milford-on-Sea Hants Mr Brian Denison 23 of Poole Mr Glenn Clark 32 of Southampton Mr Paul Hadfield 30 of Basingstoke and Miss Alison MacGregor 32 of Putney south London Southwark Crown Court Judge Valerie Pearlman said the former magistrate Mrs Florence Cameron and her three co-defendants had been found not guilty and left court without a stain on their character The judge said the case had caused her most enormous It was quite appalling injustice that any defendants should have to face worrying allegations and months of anxiety over what appears to be a prosecution witness statement which did not on inquiry support the allegations hope there will be an investigation into how this happened so that lessons can be learnt and this will never be When the trial opened last week Mrs Cameron who was made an MBE for her services to the Brixton community in south London was alleged to have stolen thousands of pounds lirom the West Indian Parents Action Group It received grants of up to £126000 a year from Lambeth Borough Council to set up a nursery in Gresham Road' Brixton Prosecution counsel Mr Bruce Houlder alleged that Mrs Cameron and her daughters Jennifer and Christine milked the bank accounts between August 1985 and September 1987 to help service a £130000 mortgage on a £200000 house they had bought in Colescroft Hill Pur-ley Surrey In offering no further evidence in the case Mr Houlder said fairly extraordinary turn of had taken place At first sight there appeared considerable cash from the accounts of the charity into Mrs personal account But the prosecution had become concerned about some of the figures in the report and it was to believe how he came to his Separated: Marta Chavarri Marquesa de Cubas in the middle of a takeover battle to create the biggest bank Alcocer is married to sister Esther The two women will inherit the fortune of second richest man Ramon Areces whose business interests including the Corte Ingles chain of department stores are valued at several billion pounds As speculation mounted about £jin awarded to family of shot AA chief By Our Madrid Correspondent THE WIDOW and daughter of an AA executive shot dead by Spanish police more than two years ago have been awarded £250000 damages by a court in the southern city of Seville And the former drugs squaid officer who fired the shot that killed Mr Joe Rajiah head of the AA production unit at Basingstoke Hants has been given a six-month suspended jail sentence for The ruling was announced nearly two weeks after Alberto Delgado 37 appeared before a panel of three judges to face state and private prosecutions Sri Lankan-born Mr Rajiah aged 46 who had just arrived in Spain on Oct 29 1986 was shot through the neck after police forced his car off the road near Seville In the car with him was his daughter Shanta then aged 13 He had gone to Spain to prepare an A A road map He took Shanta with him because his business trip coincided with her school half-term The judges heard that detectives had tailed the car which met Mr Rajiah at Seville airport after receiving information from Madrid that a Sri Lankan drug trafficker was flying in Delgado was trying to force open Mr car door with the same hand in which he held his gun when it went off At the trial the state prosecutor asked for one-year suspended jail sentence and a payment of £190000 compensation The private prosecution brought by a lawyer Senor Carlos Rivera on behalf of Mr divorced wife Jasmine and Shanta who live in Winchester asked for £300000 damages After the verdict was announced Senor Rivera said: are very satisfied with the damages There was never any suggestion of seeking revenge It was a tragic accident which no-one meant to happen caused by gross The Spanish state which will have to pay the damages is to appeal against the amount 24 police charged two years after Wapping demos Twenty-four police officers including an inspector four sergeants and a WPc and a former policeman appeared in court yesterday All were charged in connection with disturbances outside the News International plant at Wapping east London two years ago They face 10 charges including assault causing actual bodily harm unlawful wounding conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and perjury following incidents on Jan 24 1987 They are believed to comprise the largest group of police officers ever charged in connection with a single incident Driver who killed teenager jailed A motorist who killed a youth when he drove at a group of teenagers give them a was jailed for two years at Coventry Crown Court yesterday Jeremy Simmons 28 an result of that is that weyi neer of Benedictine Road Coventry was also banned from driving for four years He admitted causing the death of Richard Williams 15 by reckless driving on the A45 Coventry bypass last July view that within a few pounds it was possible for all the monies her accountant had add up correctly the Heiress: Esther Alcocer the effect on the takeover of marriage difficulties his wife said in a terse statement that although her marriage was over matters will have no influence whatsoever over year-old Mr Arthur Creech who was off-duty but travelling with the train driver emerged from the cab moments before the Bournemouth express ploughed into the stationary train from Basingstoke on Dec 12 Mr Michael Gurd solicitor for the family of one of the victims Mr David Moore 45 of Ashurst near Southampton suggested that Mr Creech may have been about to give a last-minute warning to passengers in the front carriage But Det Chief Insp Martin Taylor of British Transport Police said: would not have had time to speak to Mr Taylor outlined a statement by a surviving passenger who saw Mr Creech leave the front cab where he had been sitting in the with the on-duty train driver seemed to close the door look right and look left and then there was a crash looked very shocked He was looking towards each side of the train as he came out was obviously very very shocked as he realised what was Dr Iain West head of forensic medicine at Hospital who carried out post-mortem examinations on the victims said Mr Creech died from multiple injuries Mr Moore a senior marketing analyst with the Shell Oil Company who was travelling in the first carriage of the train died instantly from extensive multi- 24 Please name POSITION COMPANY ADDRESS POSTCODE 7 form the thousand to account going into The failed to petty cash book How the accountant could conceivably arrive at the figures he did has not yet been The accountant only took account of eight salary payments over some years to come to his conclusions said Mr Houlder A computer had also made a of errors which we do not Mrs Cameron 56 of Colescroft Hill Purley had denied three charges of theft of a total of £18000 a charge of dishonestly obtaining a cheque for £25758 and a further charge of forging a letter Mrs Christine Cameron-Bynoe 30 denied stealing £1000 and Miss Jennifer Cameron 27 pleaded not guilty to dishonestly obtaining a £25758 cheque by deception and stealing a sum in excess of £15000 The treasurer 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