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Tenerife striker De Miguel dies after on-field collision – Rebecca Smart for ITV News

Tenerife striker De Miguel dies after on-field collision – Rebecca Smart for ITV News

Rebecca Smart, Legal Director and at Payne Hicks Beach specialising in complex criminal defence, spoke to Charlie Frost from ITV News following the death of Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel during a Spanish second-division match. Police in Spain have opened an investigation for possible involuntary manslaughter.

Rebecca’s comments to Charlie Frost have been reproduced below with kind permission.


“In sport there is a large capability for people to almost agree to a certain amount of taking on risk and injury by partaking in that sport. So what has to be carefully looked at is what happened within that act that he carried out, was that within the remit of the sport of football in this instance. Or does it go beyond that?” she said.


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