An appeals court on Friday confirmed suspended prison sentences for two construction company directors over the death of a French teenager crushed by the collapse of a poorly built brick wall.
James Mifsud and Gordon Farrugia, directors of Buz-Dov Developments Ltd, were each handed a two-year jail term suspended for four years in 2019 over the involuntary homicide of 19-year old Quentin Michel on August 1, 2011.
The youth was pretending to scale a poolside wall, taking “funny photos” with a group of friends whilst staying at a Swieqi holiday home, when the structure gave way, toppling onto the victim, who ended up unconscious under the debris.