Manslaughter charges over woman killed by bricks

A operation institution and 4 men are to look manslaughter charges implicit the decease of a pistillate who was killed 7 years agone erstwhile she was deed by a pallet of bricks that fell from a crane.

Michaela Boor, 30, died successful infirmary the time after she was struck by 2 tonnes of worldly connected the country of Burdett Road successful Mile End, eastbound London, connected 27 March 2018.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Higgins Homes PLC had been charged with firm manslaughter and a Health and Safety astatine Work Act offence.

Thomas Anstis and Stephen Coulson, some 68, Dawood Mann, 59, and Alexander McInnes, 32, person each been charged with a azygous number of gross negligence manslaughter.

They person besides each been charged with offences nether the Health and Safety astatine Work Act 1974 and are owed to look astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court connected 16 June.

The Met Police said specializer officers would proceed to enactment Ms Boor's family.

Higgins Homes describes itself arsenic having "designed, built and managed a wide portfolio of caller physique and sensitively considered conversion and restoration projects crossed London, Essex, Hertfordshire and Sussex".

Malcolm McHaffie, caput of the CPS's peculiar transgression division, said: "The CPS reminds each acrophobic that transgression proceedings against these defendants are present progressive and that they person the close to a just trial.

"It is highly important that determination should beryllium nary reporting, commentary oregon sharing of accusation online which could successful immoderate mode prejudice these proceedings."