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Landlord must pay 6k after faulty boiler poisoning horror
A LANDLORD has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 after 10 people were poisoned by a faulty boiler.Thomas Hooper pleaded guilty to two charges under the Gas Safety Regulations Act at the City of London Magistrates' Court and was fined £4,400 and ordered to pay £1,525 costs.
On February 26, 10 people from three flats in a block in Trinity Crescent, Wandsworth, called paramedics after becoming ill from fumes.
Ambulance crews diagnosed carbon monoxide poisoning and told them to go to St George's Hospital.
Doctors found that the victims had levels of carbon monoxide as high as 30 to 40 per cent in their blood. Levels of 50 to 60 per cent can induce a coma. Engineers traced the leak to a boiler in flat four which was owned by Hooper.
The court heard that it had not been serviced by a Corgi-registered [gas safety] engineer for 20 years.
Speaking after the court hearing on July 13, Andrew Withers,prosecuting inspector for the Health and Safety Executive,said: "In this case it was very lucky that no one was killed. "I believe that if the leak and the poisoning it caused had happened slightly later in the night, this incident could have resulted in a terrible tragedy."
Sent: 23/07/2007
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