Senna trial to re-open in Italy
Almost nine years after the death of Ayrton Senna in the 1994 San Marino GP, the Italian Supreme Court has provisionally cancelled the original Appeals Court verdict, and re-opened the inquiry into the accident. The Supreme Court accepted a petition from prosecutor Rinaldo Rosini yesterday (Monday) claiming that errors had been made in the original process. No dates have been set, but the case is unlikely to be heard this year
After a lengthy investigation into the crash, Patrick Head and Adrian Newey (as the leaders of the 1994 Williams F1 engineering team) were charged with 'culpable homicide' in December 1996 by investigating magistrate Maurizio Passarini, who demanded a one-year jail sentence for both men. The charges were rejected by a court in December 1997 but, because the judge made no ruling on the cause of the accident, the prosecution appealed.
The appeal court subsequently ruled that the prosecution had offered "no proof of blame" in evidence, and dismissed the appeal in November 1999. All involved believed that this was the end of the matter. Not so.
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