A LEEDS company and a member of staff will appear in court next Wednesday in relation to the death of a lawyer who was killed by a falling window frame in 2012.
Amanda Telfer died on August 30, 2012, after she was hit by a 13-foot tall window that weighed half-a-tonne as she passed a building site at Hanover Square, off Oxford Street in London.
Four people and three companies face charges after the completion of a three-year investigation into the circumstances surrounding Ms Telfer’s death.
Leeds-based Drawn Metal, alongside I S Europe in Slough and Westgreen Construction in Surrey, has been summonsed to answer charges at Westminister Magistrates’ Court under two sections of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Claire Gordon, 35, from Ashby Crescent, Leeds, has been summonsed for manslaughter by gross negligence along with a health and safety offence. She will be joined by Damian Lakin-Hall, 48, of Cobham, Surrey, and Kelvin Adsett, 63, of Slough, Berkshire, who will answer the same charges. Steve Rogers, 61, of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire has been summonsed for a Health and Safety at Work Act breach.
The court summons have resulted from an investigation into Ms Telfer’s death by the Metropolitan Police’s homicide and major crime command and the Health and Safety Executive.
Architectural metalwork firm Drawn Metal was founded in Leeds in 1924 and has worked on high-profile projects including London’s O2 Arena and Trinity Leeds. Its last published accounts, for the year to April 2014, showed it has annual sales of £8.9m and a workforce of around 60 people.
