A KILLING TROT
DRILIi SERGEANT'S ORDER
LONDON. Trotting around a drill hall by order of an ex-Scots Guards sergeant caused the death of a 16st police constable, it was stated at West Riding Quarter Sessions at Wakefield recently by the constable's widow.
Mrs. Euphemia Plant, of Derwent Street, Worth Village, Keighley, won her appeal against a refusal of the West Riding Standing Joint Committee to grant her a special pension under the Police Pensions Act.
Her pension will be increased from £30 to £80 a year. She said that her husband, Constable Joseph V. Plant, aged 51, paraded with others for drill, and as the instructor thought the marching sluggish, the men had to trot round.
Plant seemed exhausted afterwards. A week later he was certified as "100 per cent unfit for duty due to myocarditis," and he retired with a pension in August, 1943. He died in January, 1944.
The Court decided that the "trotting" order entailed special risk for anyone of Plant's age and build.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 153, 30 June 1945, Page 4
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