Car thief ‘suffocated after 17-stone man sat on him’, inquest told
10th August 2010
An overweight man, Brian Machin, was arrested for unlawful killing after sitting on and suffocating a carjacker trying to steal his vehicle, an inquest heard.
The case was eventually dropped because prosecutors could not “establish that the force used was excessive”.
On Tuesday Ian Smith, the North Staffordshire Coroner, recorded a verdict of accidental death.