Appeal over bus window damage

CCTV of a man police want to speak to Police want to speak to a man in connection with damage to a bus window on Saturday, April 8 at 7pm, on a service heading from Wisbech to Peterborough. Call 101 and quote CF0226050417 if you have information. An NHS trust faces a fine after a jury found the organisation guilty of breaching health and safety legislation following the death of a Spalding man.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust was prosecuted following the incident in July 2012 when patient John Biggadike died after suffering “catastrophic” internal injuries when he was impaled on a lifting hoist which was being used to assist him.

Mr Biggadike (53) fell onto a protruding metal post while the hoist was being used to assist him. The prosecution alleged that hospital staff were not adequately trained or supervised in the use of the hoist and had removed a knee support pad which should have remained in place.

But the defence suggested Mr Biggadike’s death was not caused by failings in training but by a failure to act after a “serious incident” involving a hoist at a hospital in Leicester in 2007.

After a two week trial at Lincoln Crown Court a jury took three hours to find the trust guilty of failing to discharge a duty of care.

The trust will now be sentenced on a date to be fixed.