Met Police reopens investigation into Wimbledon school crash that killed two girls

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died and several more were injured after the crash at the Study Prep school in Wimbledon, south-west London, on 6 July last year In a statement issued on Thursday, the Met said: “The review has identified a number of lines of enquiry that require further examination and, as such, the investigation will now be re-opened. Following the initial police investigation, it was announced that the driver of the 4x4, Claire Freemantle, had suffered an epileptic seizure behind the wheel and would not face criminal charges Jessie Deng, Selena’s mother, said her family have been in a “strange kind of limbo”, the Daily Mail reported. “This new investigation is welcome and I sincerely hope that this ongoing nightmare for all of the families and Selena’s schoolmates can come to an end soon.” Nuria’s father, Saj Butt, said he hoped the new investigation would begin a “healing process”, according to the Daily Mail. “While we know nothing will bring Nuria back, we hope this new investigation will finally uncover what really happened on 6 July 2023, and at last allow us, and the hundreds of others affected by what happened, to begin some sort of healing process.” Floral tributes for the two eight-year-old girls who died in the crash are laid outside a school gate The force previously said officers worked “tirelessly through every detail of the incident” to ensure a complete investigation.