Morrisons fined £3.5m over epileptic’s death

Morrisons has been fined £3.5million after an epileptic employee died when he fell from the stairs during a seizure.

Matthew Gunn, 27, suffered catastrophic head injuries at the Morrisons store in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in September 2014.

He had been using the staircase to access his locker on the first floor of the shop when he suffered the seizure.

Morrisons had denied three health and safety charges at Gloucester Crown Court but was convicted yesterday. Judge Moira Macmillan said that the supermarket failed to make appropriate changes by moving Mr Gunn’s locker downstairs.