Price of a young life 


Earlier this month, Enfield-based Rooftop Rooms Ltd was fined £325,000 for breaches of health and safety law following the death of 16-year old labourer Alfie Perrin. He died after falling from scaffolding while working for the loft conversion company in November 2012. 


The prosecution followed a joint investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Homicide and Major Crime Command and the HSE. This established that Alfie had had been instructed to clear rubbish and timber off-cuts from the rear roof area of the two-storey house he was working at. He fell to his death after throwing a bag of rubble from an unsafe scaffold platform into the skip.


In March 2015, an employee of the company, Andrew Voy, was found not guilty of manslaughter.

http://news.met.police.uk/news/company-fined-following-death-of-employee-128013