Edinburgh legionnaires’ outbreak: no charges as source cannot be found

Scottish Crown Office says it has proved impossible to identify source of the bacterial outbreak in 2012, which killed four people

Prosecutors have decided against bringing any criminal charges over the deaths of four people in a legionnaires’ disease outbreak in west Edinburgh three years ago.

The Crown Office, Scotland’s prosecution authority, said it had proved impossible to identify the source of the bacterial outbreak, leaving it with insufficient evidence to take a person or company to court.

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