{"id":8358,"date":"2001-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"no-action-over-tc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2001\/09\/18\/no-action-over-tc\/","title":{"rendered":"No Action Over TC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Police have ruled out the possibility of criminal proceedings following the death of a Swansea City fan trampled to death by a police horse outside a football game last year. <\/p>\n

South Yorkshire Police have said no action will be taken after the death of Terry Coles in an incident outside Rotherham United’s Millmoor ground on May 6th 2000. <\/p>\n

Mr Coles, 41, died in hospital after suffering a fractured skull and crush injuries before the third division championship decider between the two clubs. <\/p>\n

South Yorkshire Police had called in colleagues from the West Yorkshire force to investigate the incident and the Police Complaints Authority was notified. <\/p>\n

The tragedy unfolded as rival supporters threw missiles at each other as about 100 Swansea fans were escorted to Rotherham’s Millmoor Lane ground. <\/p>\n

Security video footage showed people crouching against a wall outside the ground trying to escape the missiles. <\/p>\n

There was no suggestion that Mr Coles was involved in any violence – his friends said he was trying to calm the situation down. <\/p>\n

The police horse, one of three in the vicinity, was cantering down a slope to deal with the trouble when it collided with Mr Coles. <\/p>\n

At the time of the tragedy South Yorkshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Tim Hollis said: “The victim had not seen the horse and he appeared to be walking into the line of the animal. <\/p>\n

“It quite clearly rides over him.” <\/p>\n

It is understood that a post mortem examination showed that he suffered a fractured skull as he fell to the ground, but crush injuries to his spleen and kidney were the cause of death.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Police have ruled out the possibility of criminal proceedings following the death of a Swansea City fan trampled to death by a police horse outside a football game last year. South Yorkshire Police have said no action will be taken after the death of Terry Coles in an incident outside Rotherham United’s Millmoor ground on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}