Victims and the HSE react to the Smiler guilty verdict

Statements from Neil Craig, of the Health and Safety Executive, and Paul Paxton, solicitor for eight of the Alton Towers Smiler crash victims at North Staffordshire Justice Centre, as Merlin indicates it will submit a guilty plea.

[@dembydish]

5 million is nothing by way of compensation today, especially by such a profitable company. No doubt they'd have paid more if people had died. I think the lawyers should have. Pushed harder.

[@gshockbabe6144]

£5,000,000 is nothing compared to the suffering of these kids.Alton Towers should have been shut down.

[@Th3Sm1ler]

Why do they call it the Smiler ride like just call it the smiler

[@sammy2745]

It’s official 🙄. If it’s something important like this then you need to know the specific thing. It could have been mixed up