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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4834197, member: 1969"]
From what I understand (And I may partially or fully wrong in interpreting what I saw in a tweet) UK Law is a little different than US or Canadian law, and this arrest is at more of an intermediate stage than what we would be accustomed to which is why they use "Suspicion".

While I'm not 100% convinced that it was not accidental *,  I'm personally strongly thinking reckless dirty behavior on the ice not meant to kill- that he wanted to sweep him or leg tackle him or even kick him, and it didn't go as intended.  Which by definition would be manslaughter

*But I do think the prosecution will have a very hard time establishing a case beyond a reasonable doubt.   I think a lawyer might well be able to get him off and create enough plausibility that it was accidental.   The thing that is not clear from these videos is how much (if at all) was he incidentally clipped  by the skater passing by in front of him.    He didn't need to be clipped hard - in fact the slightest clips sometimes cause the most tumbling movements.

Its very clear from the video that he changes his direction of attack at the end - he did.   And if you are skating hard,  clipped while strongly planting on your edge of your right skate, while lessening the pressure on your left foot,  its possible an unnatural motion could occur where your left skate shoots upward and its purely an accident.

Do I think that is what likely happened?  No, but it might be hard to fully disprove it in my view.
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