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| Man and daughter jailed over Leicester burst football row death | |
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| A father and daughter who launched a fatal attack on a neighbour who punctured a child's football have each been jailed for seven years. | A father and daughter who launched a fatal attack on a neighbour who punctured a child's football have each been jailed for seven years. |
| Natalie Bollen and William Jelly assaulted Kelly Machin on the day she deflated the ball using a knife. | Natalie Bollen and William Jelly assaulted Kelly Machin on the day she deflated the ball using a knife. |
| Ms Machin, who had been fed up with balls landing in her back garden in Leicester, died two weeks after the attack, which happened on 23 August. | Ms Machin, who had been fed up with balls landing in her back garden in Leicester, died two weeks after the attack, which happened on 23 August. |
| Bollen, 28, and Jelly, 48, were convicted of manslaughter last month. | |
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| Leicester Crown Court heard that Ms Machin was concerned about the excessive noise made by Bollen's children, and bothered by them regularly kicking balls into her garden. | |
| On 23 August, she punctured a ball with a knife, which led to a confrontation in which she was punched by Bollen and pushed or punched to the ground by Jelly. | |
| The court heard how they barged their way into Ms Machin's house uninvited. | |
| Her injuries were assessed by paramedics, but she was not admitted to hospital. | |
| She continued experiencing severe pain and was eventually taken to hospital on 28 August, but her injuries were regarded as not requiring emergency treatment. | |
| But Ms Machin, who lived two doors down from Bollen in Waldwick Close, was found dead at her home on 5 September, having died "alone and in pain" either on 3 or 4 September. | |
| The court heard that rib injuries had caused 1.9 litres of blood to gradually accumulate around her heart, which stopped working. |