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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthew Cooper

Co-owners jailed and firm fined £2m over deaths of workers in animal feed tanker

A food waste recycling company has been fined £2 million and one of its co-owners jailed for 13 years after two workers died in a road haulage tanker containing pig feed.

Gillian Leivers, whom a judge said had shown a “blatant disregard for a high risk of death” while in charge of staff at Greenfeeds Ltd, was told she must serve two-thirds of her sentence in custody before being released on licence.

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