2021-04-23
Worker fell to death from 'unsafe' scaffold
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: In a statement read out by Mr Kennedy, Wendel said he wanted to apologise to Ms Buraczewski. "The grief I feel for you and your family is real and I will take it to my grave," he said. "From the bottom of my heart, I am truly and deeply sorry for what occurred." Passing sentence, Judge Martin Nolan said what had happened was a "pure accident". "I think the weakness in this scaffold wasn't obvious to all parties who used it." He accepted Wendel was genuinely remorseful and had been badly affected by the accident. "I think Mr Wendel is a moral man with a good conscience," he said.