The tragic death of a seven-year-old child and the acquittal of the electrician who installed the circuit that killed him.
The aim of this video isn’t to say whether the jury was right or wrong in finding the electrician not- guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence, after all I wasn’t in court to hear the evidence presented. What I do know is that the electrician made mistakes by failing to undertake basic tests or make recommendations to the landlord who was the duty holder.
He made assumptions on safety and plead ignorance about the site that didn’t hold up in court; quite right too as he’d spent ten weeks working there. This sparky took a going rate for providing his professional services, yet he cut corners that directly led to a dangerous situation in a public area and he failed to cover himself by undertaking basic tests and recording the results.
I want to open up what happened here because examples of poor workmanship by amateur installers and lazy electricians are rife. We come across these types of dangerous installations all the time, and its simply dumb luck as to whether someone gets hurt or not. At this site, improper modifications and poor maintenance had been the norm for years and it was only a matter of time before someone got hurt.
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4 мар 2021