A roofing company which breached health and safety regulations leading to a 16-year-old falling to his death from a roof will have to wait to hear its fate after the sentencing date was adjourned again.
Representatives of North London company Roof Top Rooms Ltd were due to attend Snaresbrook Crown Court today after it admitted back in March it had failed to provide adequate protection for apprentice Alfie Perrin.
This is the second time sentencing has been adjourned after it was previously rescheduled from its orginal date of April 13.
Alfie slipped from scaffolding in Camden Road, Wanstead, where Roof Top Rooms Ltd was completing an extension in November 2012.
The Enfield resident was throwing a bag of rubble from the scaffold platform into a skip below when he fell, later dying from a head injury at Wanstead Hospital.
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 at a date yet to be arranged.
The site of the Alfie's fall in Camden Road, Wanstead.
Alfie Perrin, from Enfield, was 16 at the time of his death.
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