Firms fined £1.5m after girl’s ‘horrific’ lift death

Two companies have been fined more than £1.5million after a five-year-old girl died when her head became trapped in a lift in her home.

Alexys Brown, known as Lexi, died from “horrific” head and neck injuries after becoming stuck between the lift and the ceiling of her home in Weymouth, Dorset, in August 2015.

Synergy Housing, a housing association which owned the property, was fined £1 million. Orona, a maintenance contractor, was fined £533,000. Both were ordered to pay £40,000 costs. At a previous hearing at Bournemouth Crown Court, both pleaded guilty to a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act.