These pictures show bare-foot builders putting their lives at risk while working on a dangerous building site in Denton.
Workers with no safety equipment were photographed leaning over a huge hole while laying the foundations of a family home at Gilbraltar Lane. The excavation wasn't shored up and was so deep it undermined a neighbouring house making it unstable.
The photographs have been released after the site's principal contractor Mustapha Matib was given a suspended prison sentence for breaking health and safety rules. Manchester magistrates' court heard how between 2019 and 2020 Matib employed several groundworkers to excavate land at Gibraltar Lane in preparation for the construction of a family home.
