Bert, a habitual burglar, breaks into a block of retirement flats at night. He enters Maud’s flat. Maud is an elderly lady with a weak heart. She interrupts Bert while he is rifling through her cupboards. Maud suffers a heart attack due to shock and dies.
Bert will be convicted of unlawful act manslaughter. The act of burglary became dangerous when Bert saw that Maud was an elderly lady and realised that there was a risk of some harm to her.
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