Justice demanded for dead dockworker 
   'Inexplicable' failure to prosecute after court ruling

   Friends and supporters of Simon Jones, a casual
   worker who was killed while unloading a ship at
   Shoreham docks, yesterday gathered outside the
   crown prosecution service office [CPC] in
   London in protest at its failure to prosecute
   his employer for manslaughter. 

   But five months later the DPP has still not come
   to a conclusion, despite a police recommendation
   to prosecute for manslaughter. A CPS spokeswoman
   said yesterday that the case was still under
   consideration by Mr Calvert-Smith, adding: 
   "We've had a lot to consider". 

   Mr Jones, 24, was killed and his head partly 
   severed by a crane grab while he was unloading
   cobblestones from a Polish ship for a Dutch
   -owned firm, Euromin

   Euromin and its general manager, James Martell, 
   were found by inspectors to have been breaking
   health and safety regulations. But despite 
   pressure for action, the CPS twice refused to 
   prosecute either Mr Martell or Euromin for
   manslaughter on grounds of insufficient
   evidence. 

   But campaigners believe that the CPS and DPP  
   [Director of Public Prosecutions] are reluctant
   to prosecute firms for corporate manslaughter,
   even where there is a realistic chance of a
   conviction, because they are unhappy about the
   consequences of company directors being sent to
   prison over deaths at work. 

   Seumas Milne, labour editor
   Saturday September 2, 2000
   The Guardian

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  "Perceptions" note:

  see http://www.perceptions.couk.com/laworjustice.html
  
  for evidence: only the poor go to jail in Britain,
  though most deaths caused by the rich.

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