Girl, 7, killed in funfair tragedy

A YOUNG girl died when a bouncy castle that two fairground workers had failed to “adequately anchor” to the ground was blown across a park with her inside it.

Seven-year-old Summer Grant had been enjoying a family day out at Harlow Town Park in Essex when the inflatable was blown away, Chelmsford Crown Court was told.

Fairground worker William Thurston, 29, and his wife, Shelby Thurston, 26, both deny manslaughter by gross negligence and a health and safety offence.

Tracy Ayling QC, prosecuting, said: “While Summer was in the bouncy castle, it blew away from its moorings, bounced 300 metres down a hill; having hit a tree, it came to rest.”

The trial continues.