Boss faces work manslaughter charges after fatal fall

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A former councillor has gone on trial charged with manslaughter after one of his employees, 50-year-old Robert Stanley Dawson, fell to his death from a fragile roof. Teesside Crown Court was told ex-Hartlepool Tory councillor John Elders had not provided adequate safety measures for workers at his company, Factorycover Ltd, on the day of the accident.

Elders and his company both deny manslaughter and two breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Prosecutor Simon Jackson told the ju... (89 more words)

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