Four charged after mum, 29, killed by falling bricks on building site as she dropped young son off at nursery
FOUR people have been charged after a newly-engaged mum was killed by falling bricks on a building site.
Michaela Boor was hit by a pallet that fell from a 100ft crane on a building site in Mile End, East London.
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Michaela Boor was killed by falling bricks
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She had dropped her son off at nursery when the horror unfolded
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The 29-year-old, who had got engaged just two weeks before, was rushed to hospital but tragically died on March 29, 2018.
Now building company Higgins
Homes
PLC has been charged with corporate manslaughter and offences under Section 3 of the
Health
and Safety at Work Act 1974.
Four men have also been charged with gross negligence manslaughter and health and safety offences following the
horror
.
They are crane operator Alexander McInnes, 32, crane supervisor Dawood Maan, 59, Stephen Coulson, 68, who was responsible for compiling the lifting plan for the site, and site manager Thomas Anstis, 68.
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All of the defendants are set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on June 16.
Michaela, who ran a
jewellery
company, was struck by the bricks after she dropped her young son off at nursery in Tower Hamlets.
She died in hospital two days later after suffering catastrophic head injuries.
Malcolm McHaffie, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime Division, said: 'Following a
review
of the evidence from the Metropolitan Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), we have authorised criminal charges against a company and four individuals in relation to the death of 30-year-old Michaela Boor in 2018.
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'Ms Boor died after being struck by falling bricks as she walked on the pavement past a building site on the corner of Burdett Road in Bow, east London, on 27 March 2018.
'The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against these defendants are now active and that they have the right to a fair trial.
'It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.'
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The bricks are understood to have fallen from a pallet being carried by a crane
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Michaela was rushed to hospital but died two days later
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