A school has been fined more than £28,000 after a nine-year-old boy was killed when a 6ft tall wooden locker fell on top of him.
Leo Latifi, was injured at Great Baddow High School in Chelmsford, Essex, on 23 May 2019, after falling from the lockers, becoming trapped underneath and hitting his head on a bench.
He was not a pupil there but had been attending after-school swimming lessons with his school, St Michael's Primary School, when the incident took place at around 6:30pm.
CPR was administered by emergency services at the scene and Leo was transferred to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford by air ambulance, where he later died.
A post-mortem examination into his death, carried out at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, confirmed Leo died as a result of a severe head injury.
A jury inquest into Leo's death in October 2020 concluded that he died as a result of an accident, that was 'significantly contributed to' by a lack of 'appropriate assessment' into the risks.
Leo Latifi (pictured), was injured at Great Baddow High School in Chelmsford, Essex, on 23 May 2019, after falling from the lockers and becoming trapped underneath
The jury foreman, speaking on behalf of the 11 jurors, said: 'We agreed it was an accident.
'Leo Latifi's death was significantly contributed to by a lack of appropriate assessment to clear and obvious risks in relation to the locker unit not being secured to a solid wall.
'Adequate precautions and training measures were not taken to address this measure.'
They added that the site manager had 'never checked' the fittings on the locker.
Great Baddow High School faced a Health and Safety Executive prosecution hearing (HSE) at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court yesterday afternoon.
The court heard that Leo, from Galleywood, Chelmsford, was taking swimming lessons with an organisation that was renting the swimming pool while the school was closed.
Then, tragedy struck when he and a friend were climbing on the locker units that hadn't been attached to the wall.
His parents, Natalie, 32, and Eduart, 39, (pictured together with Leo) have described living through their 'worst nightmare' of losing their eldest son
The prosecution at the case hearing said it was an 'obvious' risk and, 'despite guidance, the school failed to ensure furniture was fixed.'
They added that it 'posed risk to students.'
Behind the lockers, there were holes and rawl plugs where the lockers should have been screwed in, which suggests that they were attached to the wall at some point, the court heard.
However, at the time of the incident in 2019, they were not attached to the wall as no screws were found at the scene.
The court heard that a refurbishment project took place in 2013/2014, which saw the changing of
