Young landscaper was electrocuted by damaged cable

A young landscape gardener was killed at work in West Cork when he picked up a damaged electric cable when it was live.

Rory Davies, 25, from Stratford-Upon-Avon, was working at the house at Ardnageeha More, Bantry, when the fatal accident occurred on October 9, 2009.

Yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, the deceased’s employer, Paul Dyer, also from Stratford-Upon-Avon, pleaded guilty to three health and safety offences, for which he was given a one-year suspended jail sentence.