A building company is set to be sentenced today for breaches in health and safety which allegedly led to a 16-year-old apprentice falling to his death from scaffolding.

Representatives of Roof Top Rooms Ltd will attend Snaresbrook Crown Court today (September 4) after it admitted back in March it had failed to provide adequate protection for apprentice Alfie Perrin.

The company was due to be sentenced in May but a decision was delayed after lawyers insisted the health and safety breach was not responsible for the teenager's death.

The Enfield apprentice died from a head injury after falling from scaffolding in Camden Road, Wanstead, where Roof Top Rooms Ltd was completing an extension in November 2012.

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 representatives for the company, directors Colin Allison and Gary Smith, will attend the court today for sentencing.