A protection officer for Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has been found not guilty of causing death by careless driving.
Metropolitan Police motorcyclist Christopher Harrison, who hit a pensioner while escorting the duchess, has been found not guilty at the Old Bailey.
Eighty-one-year-old Helen Holland died two weeks after she was hit on West Cromwell Road, west London, in May 2023.
PC Harrison, 68, was travelling at between 44mph and 58mph as he approached the crossing, which had a 30mph speed limit at the time.
The protection officer was escorting Sophie when the incident occurred
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A jury acquitted PC Harrison after deliberating for two hours and 25 minutes.
After the verdict was returned, a person shouted from the public gallery: "You ruined our family with no consequences."
Mr Justice Martin Chamberlain told the officer that he was free to leave.
On the day of the incident, PC Harrison was among the team of protection officers that was escorting Sophie as she left the Foreign Office in King Charles Street at just after 3pm, jurors were told.
Sophie was being escorted from the Foreign Office
| PAThe car that the duchess was in and a police back-up vehicle were present in the convoy.
The defendant, who had 21 years of experience in the specialist escort group, said he "couldn't put it into numbers" how many times he had taken that route.
Ms Holland was 2.9 metres onto the crossing when she was struck by PC Harrison's motorbike, the court heard.
The 81-year-old suffered a fractured skull, bruising to her arms, legs and body, plus fractures to her lower legs.
Helen Holland passed away from a severe head injury
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A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as complications from a severe head injury.
PC Harrison became emotional while giving evidence during the trial, telling jurors the collision was a "tragic accident" which occurred in circumstances that he had "no control over".
Under cross-examination, he accepted he forgot to switch on his body-worn camera and did not use his whistle as he approached the pedestrian crossing, but insisted he had not been complacent that day.
He told jurors: "She was just there in front of me. She just appeared, between the kerb line and the point of collision.
"At no point did I see her on the island, I'm sorry."
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