Claire Freemantle has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and seven counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after the incident in Wimbledon, southwest London.
The 49-year-old, from Edge Hill, Wimbledon, indicated through lawyers that she will plead not guilty when she appears at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 16 June.
Schoolgirls Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died in July 2023 when a Land Rover smashed through a fence at The Study Prep school, which was celebrating the last day of the summer term. More than a dozen people were also injured.
The Metropolitan Police said in June 2024 that the driver had suffered an epileptic seizure and would face no criminal charges.
But after concerns were raised by the families of the two young girls, a review of the case was carried out, and the force's Specialist Crime Command decided to reinvestigate the case.
Freemantle was arrested for the second time and released under investigation in January last year.
A statement released by Freemantle's lawyers said there are "serious questions to be answered" over why the decision to charge was reversed.
Mark Jones, criminal defence partner at Payne Hicks Beach LLP, said she would be "tortured for the rest of her life by the dreadful loss and injury" and "remains utterly devastated" by what happened.
He added: "We believe that initial decision by the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] was the right one in these tragic circumstances and that there are serious questions to be answered about the reasons for its reversal today."
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The Met police offered an apology in a statement about their handling of the crash: "We are sorry for how we initially dealt with the incident and for the impact on those affected.
"We must now let both criminal proceedings and the independent investigation run their course.
"However, following a review of the Roads and Transport Policing Command we will be fundamentally resetting how the Met investigates fatal and serious collisions."
Separately, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is currently investigating officers for alleged racism in their handling of the case.
The watchdog previously said it was examining allegations that officers provided "false and misleading information" to the families after they raised concerns about the standard of the investigation.
The IOPC is examining complaints against 11 staff, including four serving officers and one former officer, who are being investigated for gross misconduct.
James Holder, 54, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, had gone back to the woman's home, went to the toilet and then fell asleep on her bed.
The multi-millionaire fashion boss then woke up and beckoned the woman, who was trying to sleep in the lounge, into her bedroom and raped her.
Holder had denied charges of assault by penetration and rape and said what sexual activity took place between them was consensual.
A jury at Gloucester Crown Court acquitted Holder of assault by penetration but found him guilty of rape.
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The court heard the woman was attacked in the early hours of 7 May 2022 after a night out at a bar in Cheltenham.
Holder and a friend had gone back to her home uninvited, and he attacked her after waking from a brief nap on her bed.
Giving evidence, the woman said she was crying and asking the married father-of-two to stop, but he continued.
The ordeal ended when she managed to escape the bedroom, and Holder left her home a short time later.
The woman denied suggestions from Holder's barrister that she had initiated the encounter.
Michelle Heeley KC, defending, said: "This was a drunken sexual encounter that you regret?"
She replied: "Incorrect."
The court heard businessman and philanthropist Holder was "old school and chivalrous" towards women and "adored sex".
He told the jury she had kissed him first and it was "evident what she wanted to happen".
Holder was remanded into custody ahead of sentencing at Bristol Crown Court on 7 May.
Kuwait-born Abdullah Albadri, 34, was tackled by armed police after he leapt up an embassy fence armed with a pair of 10cm (four-inch) knives last May.
Jurors were told he had tried to get into the grounds in Kensington, west London, to "exact revenge" for the killing of children in Gaza.
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On Friday, a jury at the Old Bailey, which deliberated for nearly 14 hours, found him guilty of preparation of terrorist acts and possession of two bladed articles.
The court had heard how Albadri was refused asylum after he twice entered the UK in small boats in 2021 and April 2025.
The defendant, who was born into the stateless Arabian Bedoon tribe, said he had been jailed and mistreated for campaigning for human rights in Kuwait.
On 28 April last year, he was seen on CCTV walking for an hour from Kilburn in northwest London to the embassy with his head covered by dark sunglasses and a distinctive red and white headscarf.
Jumped up the fence
After reaching the embassy just before 6pm, Albadri made a salute-like gesture and jumped up the 2.4m (8-foot) high metal fence.
Within seconds, two armed diplomatic protection officers reached up and grabbed the defendant, pulling him to the ground.
Pc Libby Chessor told jurors it had been "challenging" pulling Albadri off the fence because he had been holding on "quite strongly".
Albadri was pinned down by officers and handcuffed before being searched.
'Got my weapons'
On police body-worn video shown in court, Albadri indicated he had "got my weapons".
Officers seized two red-handled 10cm knives with serrated blades along with pieces of paper including a "martyrdom note".
Albadri told police: "I wanna make a crime inside there, why are you stopping me?"
He went on to complain: "Why didn't you let me in?"
'Just a message'
Later, Albadri was heard on police body-worn video saying it was "just a message", before adding that: "They need to stop this f****** war on children.
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He denied preparing to commit an act of terrorism and said the knives were intended for "personal use" as he was homeless.
At trial, Albadri said he never wanted to harm anyone as it was "against my nature".
Defence barrister Chris Henry KC said Albadri had been in a "state of total despair" after his asylum claim was rejected, telling jurors the case "is about a human being in real distress and what is going on inside his head".
Following the verdict, Bethan David, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Counter terrorism division, said Albadri "deliberately armed himself [and] concealed his identity", actions, she said, which "were driven by an intention to use violence to make a political statement".
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They were the words of the Bank of England's governor on Thursday while warning over the risks posed to the UK economy by the surge in global energy costs.
It does not bode well for the nation's favourite food: chips.
But a leading figure in the potato industry has told Sky News we won't see the worst until next year.
Scott Walker, the chief executive of GB Potatoes, said the way the industry works means the impact of war-linked costs will be delayed, with "inevitable" increases in 2027.
He was speaking amid government warnings of more than eight months of rising prices once the conflict in the Middle East ends, while the fish and chip shop industry sees an immediate threat to its very existence.
Rising costs for energy, cooking oil and fish are already being reflected in portion sizes or prices, according to the National Federation of Fish Fryers, which fears an acceleration in this decade's trend of shop closures.
When it comes to the humble spud, the cost of the base potato product actually remains weak due to a continuing, Europe-wide glut, according to Mr Walker, though chip shop prices could rise to help account for the extra price pressures already facing fryers themselves.
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Mr Walker explained that the vast majority of UK potato producers work to annual growing contracts with their customers, which give both growers and the likes of wholesalers and supermarkets "insurance" – a certainty over incomes and prices ahead.
"At this moment in time, people shouldn't be paying any more," he said, in good news for buyers of the many raw potato varieties in the shops.
Fertiliser, for example, was already bought for the current growing year ahead of the outbreak of the war, but Mr Walker said the outlook was more bleak.
"Down the line prices will have to rise because we have a lot of costs coming," he warned.
While growers could attempt to claim "exceptional" costs from their customers in a bid to restore some health to margins this year, Mr Walker warned the 2027 contracts would have to reflect a doubling of red diesel and some fertiliser prices.
He also highlighted higher plastic packaging charges, along with raised tax and wage demands imposed by the government.
"The average price was about 65p (a litre) for red diesel last year," he explained.
"Farmers this year have been paying about 140p, but it has dipped back to around 120p."
Mr Walker warned that much would also depend on the weather in the months ahead, with a dry summer forcing farmers to irrigate more using diesel-powered generators.
"If diesel prices remain high, that's going to be a big extra cost," he warned, signalling that planting, irrigation, harvesting and distribution costs were all flashing red.
"Sadly, rising prices are inevitable... Everyone faces rising prices: the cost of collection, living wage, (the) price of electricity for wholesalers. There's a lot of cost in the system."
What about crisps?
Mike Russell Smith, who co-founded the Savoursmiths luxury crisp brand outside Cambridge in 2016 alongside his wife, grows his own potatoes and manufactures the product on site.
He echoed Mr Walker's sentiments over the surge in costs.
He explained that a "massive oversupply" across Europe last year, due to strong crop yields, had depressed prices, but the business, at the same time, was already grappling with a doubling of sunflower oil costs due to the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war.
He pointed to rising costs for labour, harvesting, production and cold storage.
"The softer price of the potato due to the surplus of supply is going to be significantly offset by considerably higher prices in terms of energy, gas, electricity and the sunflower oil we cook the potatoes in," he explained.
On the prospect of price increases for consumers, he added: "In 2027, we'll certainly have to review things in what is a very competitive industry. There comes a point where the costs just aren't swallowable anymore."
The industry 'plea'
Mr Walker argued it was in the gift of government to help ease the burden facing the industry.
He said: "Most of it is out of our hands. The plea to government...unfortunately is a lot of the rules and regulations are adding to the burden, and we call on the government to ease those regulations and help with electricity costs.
"Access to water is a key thing for growing potatoes, so we keep asking for regulation to allow farmers to store water to secure food security."
A government spokesperson said in response: "We are taking the effects of the Iran war very seriously and are actively monitoring the potential impact of the conflict on the food and farming sector.
"The UK has a resilient food system, and at present we do not expect any impact on availability. We are continuing to meet with stakeholders, including farmers' unions, to share information on rising fuel and oil prices."
Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both aged 53, from East Sussex, were sentenced to 10 years in February after Iranian authorities accused them of spying for Britain and Israel.
They were arrested in January 2025 while travelling through the country on an around-the-world motorcycle trip from Europe to Australia.
Both have been locked up inside Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, where British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was held for five years, and say they have been kept in squalid conditions while forced to wait months for basic medical treatment.
They deny the Iranian allegations, with Ms Foreman describing the charges in a diary entry as "a joke; lies and nonsense".
"I am dealing with the realisation that we are likely to be here for a long time yet," Ms Foreman said, as she spoke of brutal conditions in her women's dormitory, surrounded by inmates on death row.
Since the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran in February, the couple said they are in a "life-threatening situation" as the jail is in an active war zone.
Previously it was hit by Israeli rockets on 23 June last year, killing at least 80 people, including one child and eight women, the day before a ceasefire ended a 12-day war with Iran.
Mr Foreman told how four of his cellmates have been executed during his time in detention.
He described a pattern in which prisoners are told they have a family visit, then are taken away and killed - with their deaths confirmed the following day when their faces appear on prison television.
These inmates were said to have been executed for reasons such as, having a business connection with an American company, and another in which two WhatsApp messages were sent to the wrong recipient.
Fights between inmates, some carrying makeshift weapons, are a regular feature of his wing, which houses prisoners of multiple nationalities, he said.
In a defiant message to the British government, he said: "We are innocent people. We have committed no offence. Just take action. Speak out. Get us out. It seems to me we're sitting here like sitting ducks."
Ms Foreman is held separately in a women's dormitory, with her diary painting a stark picture of poor sanitation, scarce food, and a near-total absence of medical care.
As the only non-Iranian woman in her wing, she described growing hostility: "People say, 'Why is your government not doing more?'"
Other fellow inmates include protesters and religious minorities imprisoned for offences that "we cannot comprehend in the life we lead in a free country".
Ms Foreman takes part in a weekly hunger strike in protest at ongoing executions as she continues to record entries in her diary.
She writes of repurposing the previous evening's prison meal as the next day's lunch, stretching what she has.
Communication with her son Joe Bennett was cut off entirely for seven months, with contact now through monitored phone calls.
"Those challenges that seem insignificant outside are massively important here," she said.
In March, in her first interview since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on 28 February, she described prisoners "hyperventilating" and "screaming" when bombs were going off in the first four nights of the war.
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Ms Foreman's most recent contact with the British ambassador "left her without optimism", her family said.
The couple's latest revelations follow a statement by UK Middle East minister Hamish Falconer, who told Parliament recently that the couple were "innocent tourists", intensifying calls for urgent diplomatic intervention.
In his second call with the couple this year, the British ambassador to Iran, Hugo Shorter, advised them to prepare for a prolonged period of detention - a message their family describes as "deeply alarming" given how long they have already served in prison.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) described the jail sentences the pair received as "appalling" - saying the UK government is taking action in an attempt to secure their release.
But the family argues that the UK government's acknowledgement of the couple's innocence must be matched by stronger action and are calling on the UK's foreign secretary to raise the case directly and publicly with Iranian authorities.
They also urge ministers to move beyond private diplomacy to sustained public pressure, and international partners to coordinate efforts to secure the couple's release.
An FCDO spokesperson told Sky News: "Since Lindsay and Craig's arrest last year, Britain's ambassador to Tehran, diplomats and officials in London have been working to provide consular assistance. This includes the ambassador visiting them in prison and facilitating calls with their family back in the UK.
"The foreign secretary last met the family on 17 March. She set out to them personally how unjustified and appalling we consider Lindsay and Craig's incarceration to be, and the action that the UK government is taking to try and secure their release.
"We will continue working to ensure that Craig and Lindsay are returned safely to the UK."