Abdullah Hayayei: UK Athletics and former head of sport Keith Davies charged with manslaughter after Paralympian’s death

UK Athletics and the organisation’s former head of sport Keith Davies have been charged with manslaughter over the dying of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei.

Hayayei died aged 36 after a metallic cage fell on him whereas coaching at Newham Leisure Centre, London in July 2017.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has charged UK Athletics Restricted with “company manslaughter and a well being and security at work act offence”.

Davies, 77, has been charged with “gross negligence manslaughter and a well being and security at work act offence”.

UK Athletics and Davies will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on 31 January.

Hayayei was coaching for the World Para-athletics Championships in London on the time of the incident.

The United Arab Emirates thrower had been set to compete within the shot put, discus and javelin F34 occasions.

Hayayei, a father of 5, completed sixth within the javelin F34 and seventh within the F34 shot put when making his Paralympic debut at Rio 2016.

London 2017 was resulting from be his second look at a World Championships. On the 2015 occasion in Doha, Qatar, Hayayei completed fifth within the discus F34 and eighth within the shot put F34.