A woman has been charged over the death of an 87-year-old great-grandmother who was assaulted at Birmingham New Street railway station.<\/p>\n
Dorothy Chiles suffered a broken hip after the attack on the station’s concourse at about 11am on 19 November 2024, according to British Transport Police (BTP).<\/p>\n
Ms Chiles had surgery and was discharged from hospital on 2 December 2024, but she later died at home on 27 December.<\/p>\n
Charlie Lane, 26, has been charged with manslaughter and a racially aggravated public order offence, BTP said.<\/p>\n
Lane, of Marlborough Road, Gloucester, was released on conditional bail.<\/p>\n
She is due to appear at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on 30 April.<\/p>\n
Read more from Sky News: In a statement released by police after her death, Ms Chiles’s family said she was “a lively, outgoing lady whose energy was contagious”.<\/p>\n They said: “Dorothy was more than a mom, grandmother and great-grandmother – she was a best friend, a guiding light, and a source of endless joy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been charged over the death of an 87-year-old great-grandmother who was assaulted at Birmingham New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-508181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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