Bradley Hooper

“The evidence showed that the marshall at Point 11 had earlier been using his mobile phone to take photographs of passing riders and at the time of the incident was facing in the opposite direction to the direction of travel of the riders, so that he was unaware of [the deceased] coming off his machine and did not show a yellow flag until after the fatal collision”

“The marshall at Point 11 was aged 16 at the time of the incident and had only marshalled on one previous occasion”