'He's a brick short of a load': Neighbours' nightmare living next to building site where barefoot workers lives were put at risk
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThose living next to a Tameside building site where a man wanting to build himself a new family home and allowed workers to dig barefoot have spoken of their 'nightmare.' Mustapha Matib was not a builder but took it upon himself to act as principal contractor for the project to build the new home, which he intended to live in afterwards.
But shocking pictures from the site showed workers with no shoes or socks working on the rubble-filled site. Workers on the site, on a plot of land neighbouring a number of bungalows on a housing estate in the Haughton Green area of Denton, were also captured leaning over a huge hole estimated to be around seven-feet deep.
Locals said they understood was to become a swimming pool. READ MORE: GMP apologise for slow response after thug kicks woman's dog then breaks her jaw The botched excavation work has now left one property on Gilbraltar Lane, close to the Haughton Dale Nature Reserve in the Tame Valley, 'unstable', said the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Matib was successfully prosecuted by HSE and was handed a suspended prison term at Manchester Magistrates Court. Today, those living nearby spoke of their anger and frustration at what had been happening at the site following the granting of planning permission several years ago.
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