SAFETY FAILING
Topshop and ex owner Arcadia fined £1m after kid, 10, was killed by barrier
TOPSHOP and former owner Arcadia were yesterday fined £1million over a ten-year-old killed by a barrier.
The businesses, part of Sir Philip Green’s former retail empire and both now in liquidation, were convicted of health and safety failures.
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They failed to install and inspect properly a 17-stone barrier that toppled on to Kaden Reddick at Topshop in Reading, Berks, in 2017.
It happened days after a similar barrier fell on a ten-year-old girl in Glasgow.
In a statement, Kaden’s mum Lisa Mallett told Reading crown court: “There is a hole — a hole that is bottomless so can’t be filled.”
The fine was awarded after a court found the firm guilty at a hearing earlier this year.
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"Sentencing, Judge Heather Norton said: For a child to die on an ordinary day in an ordinary shop must carry a particular pain and shock.
"The risk these queue barriers possessed should have been and was, forseen by the defendant companies."
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