Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter The owner of Bosley Mill has been cleared of gross negligence manslaughter after an explosion that killed four workers.
George Boden, 64, of Church Road, Stockport, pleaded guilty to a charge of being the director of a corporate body which committed an offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
The blast at the Cheshire wood mill in July 2015 killed 62-year-old cleaner Dorothy Bailey, 51-year-old maintenance fitter Derek William Barks, known as Will, and mill worker Derek Moore, also 62.
Chargehand Jason Shingler, 38, also died in the blaze, but his body was never recovered. Boden and the firm Wood Treatment Ltd had been on trial for
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