A roofing company which breached health and safety regulations leading to a 16-year-old falling to his death from a roof will be sentenced today.
Representatives of North London company Roof Top Rooms Ltd will attend Snaresbrook Crown Court today (May 27) after it admitted back in March it had failed to provide adequate protection for apprentice Alfie Perrin.
The original date for sentencing was April 13 but it was adjourned twice.
The Enfield resident 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 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.
Two directors Colin Allison, 39, and Gary Smith, will appear at the same court today.
Alfie Perrin died aged 16 in 2012.
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