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A teenager’s life could have been saved if he had been given “basic” instructions by Scout leaders, an inquest heard.
Ben Leonard, 16, from Stockport, was on an organised expedition with the Reddish Explorer Scouts when he suffered a serious head injury after falling 200ft from cliffs on the Great Orme in North Wales.
Ben and two friends had separated from the other Scouts and were not accompanied by any of the three Scout leaders on the trip when he fell from the cliff edge at the Llandudno landmark.
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The Scout Association for the first time accepted responsibility for the death on the first day of the inquest, five-and-a-half years after he died.
Gareth Williams was the first of the three Scout leaders on the trip to give evidence at Ben’s inquest, now in its fourth week, at Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
Mr Williams, at the time aged 26 and an assistant Scout leader, told the hearing it was his first trip as a scout leader, he had never met Ben before and he was asked to go because “I was basically another car to use as transport”, he said.
On the day of Ben’s death, he said he last saw the youngster who was with two other explorer scouts in an area known as Happy Valley on the way up to the top of the Orme with most of the scouts on a “meandering path”.
Sophie Cartwright KC, counsel to the inquest, asked him if any instructions were given or guidance or parameters set before the walk up the Orme.
“Not that I can recall,” Mr Williams said, “I can’t recall having any concerns at all about the terrain.”
While on the walk, he received a call from another scout leader, Mary Carr, who was ahead of him asking where Ben and his two friends were, but they
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