49-year-old Claire Freemantle will plead not guilty, with her lawyers saying there are “serious questions to be answered”.

The victims, both eight, died after a 4-by-4 vehicle crashed into The Study Preparatory School.

A woman has been charged following a reinvestigation by the Met into the road traffic collision that tragically resulted in the deaths of schoolgirls Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau. Several others were also injured.

Claire Freemantle, 49, was driving a car that was involved in a collision at the Study Prep School in Camp Road on the 6th of July 2023. Students and their families were in the school grounds celebrating the end of term with a tea party.

After charges were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the Met has charged Freemantle with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and seven offences of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

She will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, the 16th of June.

Commander Charmain Brenyah, who leads the Met’s Roads and Transport Policing Command, said: “We have updated the families of this development and our thoughts and sympathies remain with them.

“These charges follow a complex and rigorous reinvestigation by detectives.

“There is an ongoing investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) into the first investigation which we continue to fully support.

“While it is right that this matter be independently scrutinised, 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. This will ensure our responses to incidents of this nature are more effective, providing better support and outcomes for victims and their families.”

An initial investigation into the collision by the Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) resulted in a direction from the CPS in June 2024 that Freemantle should face no further action.

After concerns were raised by the families of Nuria and Selena about the outcome, it was agreed the Met’s Specialist Crime Review Group (SCRG) would carry out a review of the investigation. Further lines of enquiry were identified and a decision was subsequently taken to launch a reinvestigation.

In October 2024 a second investigation was launched by the Specialist Crime Command.

In July 2025 the Met received a complaint from the families about various aspects of the initial investigation. Separately, through the course of their enquiries, the team reinvestigating the collision had also identified a number of issues relating to the first investigation. The Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) made a referral to the

IOPC which confirmed it would independently investigate the matter.

As part of their ongoing investigation, the IOPC is investigating complaints against 11 officers.

Four serving officers and one former officer have been served with notices informing them that their conduct is being investigated at the level of gross misconduct. These officers are a commander, detective chief inspector, detective sergeant, detective constable, and a former detective inspector.

A further two officers, detective constables, are under investigation for misconduct.

The serving of notices does not mean that misconduct proceedings will necessarily follow.