To keep up with Trafford news sign up to the MyTrafford newsletter here An electrician who managed the project to build his new family home himself didn't realise the 'enormity of the task and the weight of responsibility' - and found himself in the court following the death of a worker who fell from the roof.
Married father-of-two Roy Staunton, 45, took charge of the development after he and his wife won planning permission to squeeze the property onto a plot next door to their home on a cul-de-sac in Hale, Trafford.
Tragedy struck after Staunton, a self-employed electrician, took down a scaffolding frame erected around a one-storey 'snug' on the side of the development in the mistaken belief it was safe for workmen to tile the roof. READ
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