Businessmen plead guilty to death

Christopher Meachen was crushed to death at the Concrete Company

Two businessmen have been convicted of the manslaughter of a worker who was crushed to death at a concrete plant.

Technician Christopher Meachen, who was 28, was killed at the Concrete Company on the Longwater Industrial Estate, at Costessey, Norfolk, in November 2005.

Area manager Roy Burrows, 46, and managing director Timothy Dighton, 45, pleaded guilty at Norwich Crown Court.

Burrows of Poringland, Norfolk, and Dighton of Eye, Norfolk, were bailed and will be sentenced next month.

Three children

Mr Meachen, of Long Stratton, Norfolk, died at the Minimix plant, the Costessey branch of the Concrete Company, after becoming caught in an unguarded slew conveyer.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem examination revealed he had died from multiple injuries.

Christopher Meachen was due to marry his fiancée and mother of his three children, Helen Pamplin, 24, in the summer of 2006.

Mr Meachen had been working at the concrete plant as a technician for two months.