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LIVE: Trial continues over student's Durham nightclub death

  • The trial of a company accused of the death of Durham University student Olivia Burt resumes today.
  • Olivia Burt suffered fatal head injuries during a crowd surge as students queued to get into the Missoula nightclub, in Durham, shortly before midnight on Wednesday, February 7, 2018.
  • The club's owner, the Stonegate Pub Company, faces four charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
  • The 20-year-old victim, born in Milford on Sea, Hampshire, was a first year studying Natural Sciences at Durham.
  • UK’s biggest pub chain is on trial following student’s death in queue crush outside the Walkergate venue.

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