#corporate-manslaughter

#corporate-manslaughter

Michaela Boor, 29, sustained fatal injuries when a pallet containing more than two tonnes of bricks fell from a crane at a building site on Burdett Road, Bethnal Green, on 27 March 2018. Higgins Homes Plc is accused over her death, along with Thomas Anstis, 68, of Banstead, Surrey; Stephen Coulson, 69, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire; Dawood Mann, 60, of Ashford, Kent; and Alexander McInnes, 33, of Islington, north London. At the Old Bailey, the defendants all denied gross negligence manslaughter.

The jury deliberated for 125 hours and 22 minutes to reach their verdicts. Jurors found NELFT not responsible for Alice Figueiredo’s death but recognized safety failures.