Keywords: Fined, maintenance work, stairwell, death, emergencies, guilty,

Newham council fined £125,000 for fatal maintenance 'blunders'

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.06.2007

Repeated failures to carry out maintenance work on a stairwell that led to the death of a 13-year-old boy have resulted in a £125,000 penalty for the London Borough of Newham.

Ryan Dean was playing with friends in an open-air courtyard on the first floor of a council-owned block of m ...

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