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Latest news in Yorkshire: October 26, 2018 October 26, 2018 02:04:42 PM
A bed firm boss who designed a cot in which a seven-month-old baby
“choked to death” has been jailed for three years and four months.
Craig Williams’s Playtime Beds Ltd sold the cot bed where Oscar Abbey
got stuck trying to crawl through a gap.
Oscar’s lifeless body was found by his parents caught in the bed at
their home in York on 3 November 2016.
Williams, 37, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to two
charges at Leeds Crown Court.
The father of three admitted a health and safety failing to discharge
the employer’s general duty and a fraud charge.
A jury in his trial was asked to return a not guilty verdict to gross
negligence manslaughter.
Judge Martin Spencer said Williams, of Park View Road, had a
“significant responsibility” for Oscar’s death, less than a week after
he first started using the bed.
The judge told Williams: “You should bear the brunt of that
responsibility for the rest of your life.”
Williams’s employee, Joseph Bruce, 31, of Kimberworth Park Road,
Rotherham, was jailed for six months after admitting fraud.
Read full story: bbc.co.uk
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