Barroerock owners have dodged bullet

Asbestos is a pernicious killer, with 78 people in Kent alone dying in 2015 from mesothelioma, the asbestos-related disease. (Contractors fined after Panorama workers exposed to asbestos, May 11)

The spectre of asbestos disease now hangs over not just the 200 Gurkhas who worked at the Panorama site in Ashford but also their families, children and whoever else may have come into contact with them whilst they wore their work clothes.

Those workers exposed should seek to identify whether Barroerock had a valid employers’ liability insurance policy by which compensation may be claimed if they develop mesothelioma.

For members of their families, if they contract mesothelioma there will be no insurance policy to claim from and of course no company to sue.

The perpetrators of this complete disregard for human life have simply walked away with no personal legal liability. How can this be right? The accounts of Barroerock for 2015 show the company had over £1.5 million cash and now the company is gone!

Of course, as your report says, the £750,000 fine will never be paid and how convenient it is that a company that faced the prospect of such a fine is closed down and its owners simply open up another company from the same premises.

There needs to be a change to company law to prevent the legal device of the separate legal personality of a company being used in cases like this. Dr Alan Mckenna, Ashford good number of years and have always been treated with friendliness and respect. I have always found help when needed.

Not forgetting the reception ladies, of course, what a grand team. P.A. Foster, Grantley Close, Ashford

Best of all they reduce the number of parking spaces for truck drivers that do these things. Martin Turner, Ashford