Car hire boss charged over Crete deaths
Manchester Evening News|January 22, 2024
THE boss of a car hire firm who rented out an 'unsafe' 4x4 in which a woman and a teenage boy were killed in a crash in Greece is to face trial for manslaughter.
DAMON WILKINSON
Car hire boss charged over Crete deaths

Zara Crane-Davies, 40, from Wythenshawe, died alongside 18-year-old Luke Hall when the 4x4 she was driving overturned in Malia on the Greek island of Crete in July 2019.

Another passenger, Louise Waddington, 39, suffered severe injuries in the crash. Today, Alexandros Fanourakis, owner of Eurostar car rental business, is expected to stand trial on charges of manslaughter by negligence and bodily injury due to negligence at Heraklion criminal court in Crete.

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