The sentencing date for a roofing company which breached health and safety regulations leading to a teenager falling to his death from a roof has been adjourned.

North London company Roof Top Rooms Ltd was due to receive a hefty fine yesterday at Snaresbrook Crown Court after it admitted last month it had failed to provide adequate protection for 16-year-old apprentice Alfie Perrin.

The court said that due to a listing error, the sentencing date had to be rescheduled.

Alfie, from Enfield, slipped from scaffolding in Camden Road, Wanstead, where Roof Top Rooms Ltd was completing an extension in November 2012.

He was throwing a bag of rubble from the scaffold platform into a skip below when he fell, later dying from a head injury.

A Health and Safety Executive investigation found there was no protection around the roof and the scaffold platform had a large gap at one end where a ladder or scaffold poles should have been fitted to reduce the risk of falls.

Site supervisor Andrew Voy, 35, of Memorial Avenue, West Ham was cleared of manslaughter following a trial, on March 31 at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

Two directors Colin Allison, 39, and Gary Smith, will appear at the same court for sentencing on May 21.

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Alfie Perrin, from Enfield, was 16 at the time of his death.