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Daily Mirror
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Jane Haynes & Tim Hanlon

Five dads killed by collapsing wall 'had no chance of escape' as company bosses jailed

Five dads crushed to the death when an unsafe 45-tonne wall fell on them "had no chance of escape" a court heard as two directors of a recycling plant were jailed.

The workers died when a 3.6 metre high wall fell on them at the Nechells metal recycling site in Birmingham.

Wayne Hawkeswood, Graham Woodhouse and the firms they ran - Hawkeswood Metal Recycling and Ensco 10101, known as Shredmet - were convicted at trial after denying 12 offences under the Health and Safety At Work Act, all linked to the precarious state of the wall at the premises in Aston Church Road.

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