Publican faces tunnel collapse prison threat

摘要

A director of a company that owns a Hampshire pub has received a suspended prison sentence after two workers were trapped inside a cellar tunnel that collapsed. The incident occurred in the high street in Alton beneath the Crown Hotel, which is owned by Coronita. The company has two directors, one of whom is Steve Austen. Coronita "informally employed" two members of the bar staff, Ben Collins and Matthew Bishop (then aged 26 and 23), to deepen an existing cellar and excavate a connecting tunnel to a cellar bar under the 16th century building.