What?

WHAT?

Case: A child (and friends) trespass on a building site surrounded by tall fencing, which they ignore to have their fun on the deserted site (no workmen there). He decides he would like to descend a manhole shaft, loses his footing in there and falls a further 20 feet to his death. Cause and effect right? Death by a misadventure that he freely undertook after ignoring much signage and obvious obstacles meaning stay out?

Conclusion: £860,000 fine for the building company, found in breach of some health and safety law(s) in place for the protection of it's authorised site workers, NOT some child (10) with nothing better to do,  who in law is the legal responsibility of  his parent(s).  I'm pretty sure that kid would have been in even if the perimeter had been mined, so why is a firm who had done what was required and keeping many in employment fined. This is clearly death by misadventure, self inflicted.

Question: Why is this company, who simply "facilitated" the death of a voluntary trespasser found guilty when others who made or installed faulty and dangerous building cladding, proven to have killed hundreds in building fires, not prosecuted commensurately under "health and safety" law? My belief is easy targets get duly processed by the law and slippery buggers get off. What say you?

Read about the case starting here.