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An experienced gas-fitter who failed to properly inspect a colleague's work has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in reparation and fines after a 12-year-old boy died because of his mistake.
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Michael Cartwright leaves the Dunedin District Court after being sentenced for a charge laid under the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Act.
An experienced gas-fitter who failed to properly inspect a colleague s work has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in reparation and fines after a 12-year-old boy died because of his mistake. Jesse Samuel, of Alexandra, was found slumped in a small shower unit at his family s holiday home in Haast on October 10, 2018.
Paramedics tried to save Jesse for almost an hour, but he was unable to be revived. An autopsy found he died of carbon monoxide poisoning, which was caused by the gas water heater installed in the shower unit.
The two 24-year-olds were arrested and charged in December in relation to offending which allegedly occurred between December 2012 and February 2013. The pair are co-accused of jointly offending with another man of having sexual connection with a young person under 16. Both have denied the charge. On Thursday at the Waitākere District Court, Judge Josephine Bouchier granted interim name suppression as she had concerns about the pair’s fair trial rights. Lawyers for the pair also entered not guilty pleas and elected a trial by jury. At the hearing, lawyer Ron Mansfield sought interim name suppression for his client through until the end of the trial and any appeals on the basis of fair trial rights and extreme hardship.