Jail for owner of sunbed which burned woman
Jail for owner of sunbed which burned woman
Can you create a newspaper article from the details given? You will need to add words from the panel on the right, some of them more than once!
Lincoln Crown Court heard yesterday how a faulty sunbed trapped a woman and left her ……………… 65% burns.
The owner of the firm was sentenced ……………………….. 56 days in jail yesterday.
Anne Johnston, 34, from Lincoln, was trapped ……………… more than two hours after an electric shock left her unconscious.
She woke in excruciating pain and managed to stagger to a neighbour’s before ……………………………. out.
Yesterday the owner of the tanning firm was jailed after pleading guilty to charges under the Electrical Equipment Safety Regulations Act 1994.
Ms Johnston even stopped breathing ………………………… a short time. She had to be revived in the ambulance …………….. her way to hospital.
She was later transferred ……………………………. a specialist burns unit in Doncaster, ……………………… she remained for two days.
She had hired the sunbed after seeing a newspaper advert ……………………………. Superdoopertan.
Her lawyer described the physical and emotional trauma Ms Johnston had suffered after ……………………………. the time for 12 minutes and climbing on to the bed.
He said the bed had later been examined ………………….. an electrical engineer.
An investigation showed that warnings, required ……………………………. law to be visible on the canopy, were missing or had been painted over.
Suitable protection had not been provided ………………….. live parts of the machine.
Timers should have been backed up …………………………. a secondary device to act as a failsafe.
A county council spokesman later said the owner had been released on bail pending an appeal against the sentence.
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