{"id":265,"date":"2006-01-21T17:10:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-21T17:10:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T17:10:54","slug":"rare-conviction-of-a-company-for-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Rare conviction of a company for manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">20th January 2006:<br \/>Construction company proprietor Wayne Davies of A &amp; E Buildings, based in Knighton, Powys, was today sentenced to an 18-month custodial sentence&nbsp;for manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Jones, aged 40 was killed in&nbsp;South Staffordshire whilst installing the barn roof;&nbsp;Mr Jones and another man worked at roof height from a &#8216;home-made&#8217; basket balanced on the forks of a telehandler belonging to Mr Davies.<\/p>\n<p>The telehandler tipped over, throwing both men approximately 25 feet to the ground Mr Jones sustained fatal injuries from which he died the other man was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwcrane.com\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture of a telehandler\" hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.fwcrane.com\/images\/TelehanlerFork5.JPG\" align=baseline border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Picture of a telehandler from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwcrane.com\/index.html\">FW Crane Products<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20th January 2006:Construction company proprietor Wayne Davies of A &amp; E Buildings, based in Knighton, Powys, was today sentenced to an 18-month custodial sentence&nbsp;for manslaughter. Mark Jones, aged 40 was killed in&nbsp;South Staffordshire whilst installing the barn roof;&nbsp;Mr Jones and another man worked at roof height from a &#8216;home-made&#8217; basket balanced on the forks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}