Teen Labourer Tragedy: Construction Company Guilty.

A loft-conversion company has been fined £325,000 after a teenage labourer plunged to his death from dangerous scaffolding.

Alfie Perrin ,16, from Enfield, north London was working for Rooftop Rooms Ltd when he suffered fatal head injuries in a fall from a rear roof.

The company, also based in Enfield, was convicted of failing to to ensure the health, safety and welfare of employee Alfie at the Camden Road, Leytonstone site on November 14, 2012.

An employee of the company, Andrew Voy, 36, was found not guilty of manslaughter.

The company pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court and was also ordered to pay two sets of costs, totalling over £19,000.

The London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance helicopter attended and treated Alfie, but he later died in hospital.

The death was investigated by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Homicide and Major Crime Command together with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

It was established Alfie had been instructed to clear rubbish and timber off-cuts from the rear roof area of the two storey house.

He did this by transferring them over the flat roof of the dormer extension and down the pitched roof at the front of the house, from where he was told to throw the material into the skip on the ground.

There was no edge protection around the flat dormer roof and the scaffold platform had a large gap at one end where a ladder should have been fitted or scaffold poles used to reduce the risk of falls.

Neither a ladder nor scaffold poles were in place.

Alfie fell to his death after throwing a bag of rubble from the scaffold platform into the skip.