My mother always wanted me to be a barrister and while a publican was going to go to Law College but decided against it thinking who would employ a newly qualified 55 year old solicitor but I have always kept a keen interest and my immediate reaction in anything is ' how can I get off this' or...
I was talking in general terms not specific to this case as obviously anybody arrested would say they didnt meean to do it as in rape cases the accused always say it was consensual sex.
The arrest will be on a suspicion of murder, the defence, as I said, will be that it wasnt murder and push for a possible lesser charge. That is when the lawyers come into play I would think.
I did say the defence would be either manslaughter or unlawful killing the, the police will initially arrest and possibly charge the person with murder and try to get the evidence to support that charge.
I would think that if the person was killed by the lorry the defence will be that it should be either manslaughter or unlawful killing not murder as stated, unless he was deliberately thrown in front of the lorry. Probably the police start at murder and reduce it as they go.