Director jailed for rooflight death--20-year-old victim was inexperienced, untrained and badly equipped

摘要

THE OWNER of an East Sussex roofing firm has been jailed for 12 months for the manslaughter of an employee who fell to his death through a rooflight. The jury at Hove Crown Court took eight hours to find both Colin Cooper and his company, Hailsham-based industrial roofing and sheet metal contractor IC Roofing, guilty of the manslaughter of 20-year-old Darren Hoofe. Hoofe fell through a skylight while carrying out roof repairs on a unit at the Bellbrook Industrial Estate in Uckfield on 29 November 2005. He landed six metres below on a concrete factory floor. He suffered severe head and brain injuries and died in hospital the next day.