{"id":445910,"date":"2026-02-26T03:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445910\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:12:14","slug":"firms-admit-safety-offences-after-deaths-of-attleborough-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445910\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms admit safety offences after deaths of Attleborough workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Hassall KC, prosecuting, said the pleas were on the basis that the &#8220;breaches were causative of the deaths of Mr Moon and Mr Collins&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said that at the point of sentence he would invite the judge, Mrs Justice Judith Farbey, to formally record verdicts of not guilty to the corporate manslaughter charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The companies are due to be sentenced at a two-day hearing from 31 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barrister Shauna Ritchie, representing Banham Poultry Limited, entered guilty pleas on behalf of the company to two counts of failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barrister Simon Antrobus KC, for Air Products plc, entered a guilty plea on behalf of the company to one count of the same offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The legal representatives for the companies each entered pleas of not guilty to two charges of corporate manslaughter in respect of Moon and Collins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hassall said the Crown Prosecution Service&#8217;s decision to accept the pleas was made &#8220;following consultation with the family&#8221; and Norfolk Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No details about the case were given at Wednesday&#8217;s hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Hassall KC, prosecuting, said the pleas were on the basis that the &#8220;breaches were causative of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-445910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}