Provisional trial date set for driver accused over Wimbledon Crash
49 year old Claire Freemantle is set to go on trial in September 2027.
A provisional trial date has been set for a driver of a 4×4 accused of killing two girls when she crashed into a Wimbledon primary school.
Claire Freemantle, 49, faces two charges of causing death by dangerous driving and seven counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after the incident at The Study Prep school in July 2023.
Schoolgirls Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau, both eight years old, died in the incident as the school was celebrating the last day of the summer term.
Freemantle, of Edge Hill, Wimbledon, appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey on Tuesday and spoke to confirm her identity and was not asked to enter any pleas.
A provisional trial date was set for September 6 2027.
Charges announced in May
She is accused of killing Nuria and Selena, as well as causing serious injury in the crash to Nuria’s mother Smera Chohan and another mother named as Tamsyn Van De Vyver.
A third mother and her seven-month-old baby were also injured, as well as two eight-year-old girls and a seven-year-old girl.
Criminal charges were announced in May after the girls’ families criticised the Metropolitan Police for its investigation into the crash.
In June 2024, Scotland Yard said the driver of the vehicle had suffered an epileptic seizure and would face no criminal charges.
But that decision was reversed, and the Met apologised for the way it initially dealt with the incident and the “impact on those affected”, adding it would be “fundamentally resetting how the Met investigates fatal and serious collisions”.
After the charges were announced, Freemantle’s lawyers said she would plead not guilty to the charges.
Judge Mark Lucraft KC released Freemantle on unconditional bail until the next hearing on November 23.