Former Flip Out trampoline park directors in dock after visitors 'injured daily'

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Former Flip Out trampoline park directors in dock after visitors 'injured daily'
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David Elliot Shuttleworth and Matthew Melling - the latter from Manchester - admit putting public at risk after 270 accidents over a seven week period between 2016 and 2017

Two former directors of a popular trampoline and adventure park pleaded guilty to health and safety offences after scores of visitors were “injured on a daily basis”, with 11 sustained fractured spines. David Elliott Shuttleworth and Matthew Melling, both 33, appeared at Chester Crown Court last month.

The Tower Jump was said to be the largest of its kind in the world at that time, according to Shuttleworth and Melling. Shuttleworth resigned as director of the business in July 2018 while Melling walked away in January 2020, Companies House records show, Cheshire Live reports.

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