Luxury firms fined £1.3m after man killed by falling window in London
Both firms were also ordered to pay costs of £125,000 each.View image in fullscreenThe window pane after it fell from the Corniche. One person could have asked: ‘Can’t we do this better?’ What those companies did killed my husband.“Mick was just minding his own business. The thought this could have happened to anybody is always with me.
- ▪Both firms were also ordered to pay costs of £125,000 each.View image in fullscreenThe window pane after it fell from the Corniche.
- ▪One person could have asked: ‘Can’t we do this better?’ What those companies did killed my husband.“Mick was just minding his own business.
- ▪The thought this could have happened to anybody is always with me.
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Mick Ferris Photograph: HSE/PAView image in fullscreenMick Ferris Photograph: HSE/PALondonLuxury firms fined £1.3m after man killed by falling window in LondonMick Ferris was crushed to death when the 130kg pane fell 26 storeys from the Corniche housing developmentDavid Batty and agencyThu 24 Sep 2026 11.10 EDTLast modified on Thu 24 Sep 2026 11.15 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleTwo companies have been fined a total of £1.3m over health and safety breaches after a coach driver was killed by a falling window pane.Mick Ferris, 53, was crushed when a window fell 26 storeys from the Corniche, a luxury development in Vauxhall, London, on 2 October 2018.Property developer St James Group Ltd was fined £1m and specialist facade contractor Lindner Prater was fined £300,000 at a sentencing…
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