Mother of Christopher Kapessa, 13, who died after allegedly being pushed into water, challenging CPS in judicial review
The decision not to prosecute a teenager accused of pushing a 13-year-old boy into a river was legally flawed and unreasonable or irrational, a court has heard.
Christopher Kapessa drowned after he was allegedly pushed into the River Cynon in south Wales by a 14-year-old boy in July 2019. In July 2020 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that although there was evidence to support a prosecution for manslaughter, it had decided it was not in the public interest to do so for what it described as a “foolish prank”.
