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Once DVT has been diagnosed the blood clot even if it has reached the lungs can be dispersed with anti-coagulants

Once DVT has been diagnosed, the blood clot, even if it has reached the lungs, can be dispersed with anti-coagulants. Deaths occur because of a failure of diagnosis.The CPS has found it difficult to secure convictions for corporate manslaughter because of the need to identify a single person, often in a large organisation, who can be said to be the “mind and will” of the company. The Government has promised to introduce laws to make prosecution of company directors easier, but has delayed the legislation.Last year British families of victims of DVT were told they could not bring claims for compensation against international airlines in the UK courts. The High Court ruling was delivered in London hours after judges in Australia decided a similar legal action in favour of survivors and victims of what has become known as “economy class syndrome”. The British claimants are to take their case to the Court of Appeal in the summer.The 56 British survivors of DVT and relatives of those who died are seeking damages from 27 carriers that allegedly did not warn them of the disease, which has been linked to long-haul flights.Mr Justice Nelson gave his decision on the preliminary issue of whether DVT could be an accident under the terms of the 1929 Warsaw Convention. Lawyers said airlines knew the risks but ignored them and that the convention had been drafted “in the age of the biplane” and had no relevance to the “age of the jumbo jet”.A British Airways spokesman said the company was “not aware of any criminal proceedings” and declined to comment further.’She cried.

For the last few days she slept downstairs because she couldn’t make it up the stairs She cried and said she didn’t want to die. I told her she wouldn’t but she knew something was seriously wrong.”On the night Ms Brown died her troubled breathing woke her.Her father, Richard, said: “We called an ambulance but she just keeled over in front of me and died in my arms. It was devastating.”Farrol Kahn, director and founder of the Aviation Health Institute, says Ms Brown died after a blood clot in her leg was dislodged and found its way into her lungs.”It was over three weeks after the family had returned from Australia and they didn’t think her symptoms had anything to do with the flight,” Mr Khan said.”These blood clots can be the same size as small eels and can travel quickly through the body. If they reach the lungs the result is almost certain death,” he said.Mr and Mrs Brown have since joined forces with their GP’s surgery to produce leaflets warning travellers of the dangers and setting out simple steps passengers can take to avoid DVT..

Britain’s first two convicted al-Qa’ida terrorists were jailed for 11 years each yesterday for plotting to raise funds and recruit members for Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. They supplied military equipment, false travel documents and recruitment material to the organisation, Leicester Crown Court was told.A jury convicted them of conspiracy to defraud banks and credit card companies and of funding terrorism.Sentencing them, Mr Justice Curtis said: “You have not directly taken life or seriously injured anyone but the terrorists, in order to carry out their terrible killings and maimings, need money, false papers and military-style materials. You both provided terrorists with the vital support and ran a well-organised and secretive cell.”The men had been living in Leicester and worked in a factory in Corby, Northamptonshire, but secretly acted as a support unit for al-Qa’ida. They used numerous false identities between them, and were part of a network of terrorist cells across Europe.Benmerzouga had amassed more than 60 films promoting suicide bombings and martyrdom, including 19 copies of a video of Osama bin Laden.

Meziane had a book entitled A Biography Of The Freedom Fighter Osama Bin Laden, and material on the attacks of 11 September was found on a computer at his home. Similar material was discovered at the homes of their associates across Europe.Benmerzouga and Meziane collected the names and credit card details of almost 200 different bank accounts on computer discs and envelopes found littered around their homes and cars.The cards were sent to associates across Europe, allowing them to amass more than £200,000 for terrorist causes. The pair built up technology used to support terrorists around the world.Meziane was behind the distribution of false passports and is believed to have supplied a false passport to a suspected al-Qa’ida member before a trip to a training camp in Afghanistan.He had a forger’s kit in his home suitable for forging documents and notes in code on how to lift the plastic from the pages of a passport. Meziane had one false passport in the name of Cyril Jacob, which he used to open bank accounts, get a job and claim benefits. Benmerzouga had three false passports, which he used for similar purposes.Coded e-mails were found on a computer in his flat, talking of prices for “washed” and “unwashed” clothes, which are thought to have referred to doctored travel visas.The pair had denied “entering into a funding arrangement for the purposes of terrorism”. Benmerzouga admit- ted one charge of conspiracy to defraud by manufacturing or using false bank cards and account details, as well as three charges of possessing false passports.Meziane, who was seeking asylum in Britain, denied conspiracy to defraud but pleaded guilty to possessing the false passport.. The England footballer Rio Ferdinand told a jury yesterday he had not been warned by bouncers about “touching up” women in a nightclub and denied threatening to “slap up” one female clubber.