A woman was crushed to death by a pile of bricks as she walked past a construction site after doing the school run, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
Michaela Boor, 29, suffered a fractured skull and “catastrophic brain injuries” on Burdett Road in Bow, east London<\/a>, on 27 March 2018.<\/p>\n She was treated at the scene and had surgery, but the Old Bailey was told her injuries were “unsurvivable” and that she died two days later.<\/p>\n Her friend, Chelsea Mustafa, was also hit by some bricks but managed to run into the road and avoided most of the load.<\/p>\n Higgins Homes and four construction workers are on trial at the Old Bailey over Ms Boor’s death.<\/p>\n Prosecutor Alexandra Healy KC told the court: “They had dropped their children at a primary school on St Paul’s Way.<\/p>\n “They had both walked along Burdett Road to go to Lidl and Tesco – it was Michaela’s birthday the following day and she wanted to buy some things.”<\/p>\n Ms Healy said the route took them past a construction site being developed by Higgins Homes.<\/p>\n “A pallet of bricks that was being transported by a tower crane towards a loading bay immediately adjacent to the pavement along Burdett Way fell on to them,” she told the court.<\/p>\n She added: “Michaela Boor did not make it off the pavement. She was hit by the falling bricks which fractured her skull and she sustained catastrophic brain injuries.”<\/p>\n More from Sky News: Higgins Homes, which was building a block of flats at the site, denies corporate manslaughter and a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act.<\/p>\n Also on trial are:<\/p>\n Thomas Anstis, 69, of Banstead, Surrey, who was senior site manager and temporary work co-ordinator for Higgins Homes.<\/p>\n Stephen Coulson, 69, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, the director of Coulson Lifting Services.<\/p>\n Dawood Maan, 61, of Ashford, Kent, a self-employed crane supervisor working for Coulson Lifting Services<\/p>\n Alexander McInnes, 34, of Islington, north London, a self-employed crane operator working for London Tower Cranes.<\/p>\n The four are charged with gross negligence manslaughter and a Health and Safety at Work Act offence, which they deny.<\/p>\n The trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was crushed to death by a pile of bricks as she walked past a construction site…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793370","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=793370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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