Far too soft on crime
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1319710,00.html
The government has been nobbled. Those responsible for deaths at work
will get off scot-free
George Monbiot
Tuesday October 5, 2004
The Guardian
It would be a lot for you or me. For Balfour Beatty plc, £150,000 is
nothing. Its turnover in the first six months of this year was nearly
£2bn. But this, last Friday, was the price of a human life. Michael
Mungovan was a student trying to make a bit of money. He was told to
switch off a live rail on a train line in south London. He wasn't
qualified to do it, and his partner wasn't authorised to supervise
him. But they were sent out at midnight on to the Vauxhall viaduct:
one of the most dangerous sections of track in the United Kingdom.
Mungovan was walking down the line when he was hit from behind by a
train.
George Monbiot
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