By Press Association 2021
Harvey Tyrrell
A pub owner has been jailed for nine years for the manslaughter of a seven-year-old boy who was electrocuted while playing in a beer garden.
Harvey Tyrrell suffered a fatal shock at the King Harold in Romford, east London, when he touched poorly installed outdoor lights on the afternoon of September 11 2018.
The pub’s owner David Bearman, 73, was sentenced to nine years by Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday after previously pleading guilty to gross negligence manslaughter.
Judge Martyn Zeidman QC said: “This pub was a disgrace. And… in my view, a timebomb waiting to go off.”
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Pub landlord jailed over death of boy, 7, killed by badly-installed beer garden lights
The lights outdoor lighting at the King Harold pub in Romford was described as a timebomb waiting to go off by a judge as he handed down a nine-year sentence to the pub s 73-year-old owner
Bearman also admitted a charge of abstracting electricity, after an unlawful unmetered supply was used to steal energy for the pub (Image: central news)
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Ms Jones said the pain of his death has not diminished after two-and-a-half years, adding: “It’s getting harder, so much so I don’t know where I get my strength from. “Sometimes there’s days when I cry, I don’t want to get out of bed, I’m literally howling,” she said. “We have been cheated of so much. He should still be here. He should be growing into a spoilt, bratty teenager, giving us grief. “It just breaks my heart that I wasn’t there when he got hurt. I said: ‘Ok, love you,’ and those were my last words to him.”
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