The land and property arm of the Greater London Authority has been fined after a poorly maintained wall collapsed onto a man in front of his wife and two children.
Southwark Crown Court heard how on 25 January 2014, a family of four were hurrying along a pavement to Catford Station to shelter from a storm when a wall and a hoarding attached to it was blown onto the father, causing him to lose consciousness and end up hospitalised. The man, 45, suffered facial and skull injuries including a fractured eye socket and had to have a titanium plate inserted into his left cheek area. The whole family including the children, four and nine at the time, remain affected by the incident.
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