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 any criminal charges after four people were killed 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 any person or company to court.

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