Electrician and QS on trial for death of woman

[rompling]

I Know its been posted about before but it seems the trial has begun ....
Very sad
Emma Shaw electrocuted 'because electrician was UNQUALIFIED' | Mail Online

 

[The_Wanderer]

The media being the media over blowing it all as ever though..

Comments like "£1000 for a death, joke" and "involved in her death" i read on few media sites reporting it.. Its not a murder case dear british media!

(i dont mean overblowing a tragic death btw, just the case)

 

[NickD]

It seems the QS has been found guilty and fined - don't know how I feel now about it at 1st felt they were guilty not so sure after reading other peoples views
But £1000 and only 1 of the 2 fined don't seen right IMO
Electrician whose work led to the death of Emma Shaw is fined just £1,000 | Mail Online

Bear in mind they were not on trial for the death but for breaching the Health & Safety At Work Act. I thought it was fairly cut and dried against the QS because he's countersigned work by a person who is not demonstrably competent through qualifications. Regarding the electrician's mate who did the testing being found not guilty, bear in mind it has been reported that someone else typed up his test schedule after he completed it and changed it. So it was always going to be difficult to get beyond reasonable doubt, given that a main plank of the evidence against him, the test schedule, had been tampered with. I'm not surprised he got off. Also I don't see how anyone can be sure beyond reasonable that the IR test results on the days of the test, seven years ago would have definitely flagged up the short of the L to the (unbonded) metal stud in the wall.

I wonder if this will be used by scam bodies who are opposed to the QS model of working to beat over the head the ones who aren't.