Salon manager ‘killed by cabbie’s careless U-turn’

Battersea clerkenwell Edgware

The manager of an exclusive hair salon whose clientele included footballers and royalty was killed when a cab driver carelessly made a U-turn in the road without indicating, a court heard. Claire Berretti, 45, was riding pillion on a red Ducati motorcycle at 40mph when it crashed into the silver taxi driven by Jerome Lee, 72, in Clerkenwell, central London. Ms Berretti, who had worked at Sejour hair salon in Chelsea since 2004, was thrown into the air and suffered…

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