Mum recovers after concrete slab fall at flats

March 3, 2017
by News on the Block Editorial Team

The head of a homeowner association has been sentenced to two years’ probation and ordered to pay more than £50,000 in compensation after a concrete slab fell from a roof and hit a young mum.

Andrey Kazakov was found guilty of negligence after Olga Klintsova was knocked unconscious when the block fell, which narrowly missed her baby, as she entered the block of flats in Russia. Olga, 32, has since been reunited with her daughter Katya after having to undergo gruelling physiotherapy sessions for seven months.

Katya has been staying with her grandmother at Olga’s home city Murmansk while she recovers from her injuries Judges in St Petersburg, were told by police that Kazakov knew the slabs were loose, but did nothing to repair them or warn residents.

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