Luxury fashion retailer Hugo Boss has been fined 1.2 million pounds for
health and safety breaches following the death of a four-year-old boy who
was crushed to death by a mirror in its Bicester Village outlet store.
Austen Harrison suffered “irreversible” brain damage after the large
mirror fell on top of him inside the Hugo Boss outlets changing-room in
June 2013.
Oxford Crown Court ruled that that the 18 stone mirror had “negligently
been left free-standing without any fixings,” with the judge, Peter Ross
stating that, “it would have been obvious to the untrained eye” that the
mirror posed a risk.
Hugo Boss pleaded guilty to the related health and safety charges under
the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and
Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Representing Hugo Boss, Jonathan Laidlaw QC said: “The consequence of
this failing is as awful as one could reasonably imagine. Since the day of
the accident, Hugo Boss has done all it can, first to acknowledge those
failings, to express genuine, heartfelt remorse and also demonstrate a
determination to put things right and ensure there cannot be a repeat of
what went wrong.”
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