News about David Willis

As an employee was killed in an industrial shredder, a waste disposal manager was sentenced to seven and a half years and a corporation fined £400,000, as the victim's mother said, "I will never excuse him." On September 15, 2018, David Willis (bottom right), 29, fell inside a Timmins Waste Services (TWS) machine in Mander Street, Wolverhampton, which was built for shredding wood and commercial garbage. His remains were never discovered. After a hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court last week, TWS and yard manager Brian Timmins (left), 54, who was operating the diesel-powered machine (top right) at the time, was found guilty of corporate manslaughter and murderer respectively.

The moment a labourer was killed when he collided with an industrial shredder is shown on a gruesome video. At Timmins Waste Services (TWS), in Wolverhampton, David Willis, 29, was turned into a shredder for wood and commercial waste. Mr Willis is shown being escorted to the machine by CCTV from the September 15, 2018 disaster on a JCB digger's grapple arm. Yard manager Brian Timmins was in the cab of the digger and had to alert Mr Willis of a blockage in the shredder while it was running. Mr Willis knelt on the edge of the machine, but as he reached down, he was struck immediately by the massive meshing blades, and was killed straight away by the large meshing blades.

A labourer was crushed to death 'in seconds' inside an industrial shredder, and a yard manager was found guilty of murder. David Willis, 29, was never discovered after being trapped inside a Timmins Waste Services (TWS) in Mander Street, Wolverhampton, on September 15, 2018. Brian Timmins, 54, the project's lead to Mr Willis' death, and TWS and yard manager Brian Timmins, 54, were on trial in Wolverhampton Crown Court, charged with'systemic failures' that resulted in Mr Willis' death. Timmins had been operating the shredder when it 'abruptly' stopped, according to the trial. Mr Willis was lifted on top and inside to see what the problem was, according to jurors.

A court heard that a worker was crushed to death 'in seconds' after falling into an industrial shredder while attempting to block it. David Willis, son of Timmins Waste Services (TWS), Wolverhampton's yard manager Brian Timmins Baumgart, had him plug a blockage on September 15, 2018. However, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard the 29-year-old became trapped in the device after it had immediately recovered and was completely devastated that his remains had not been found. Mr Willis' manager, who was driving the diesel-powered vehicle, may have made sure it was switched off when the worker went inside, but 'it was obviously not'. Timmins then continued working until removing an 80-tonne container of recyclable waste, which is believed to have Mr Willis' remains inside, to a landfill. Timmins, a partner of Fair Lawn, Albrighton, denies murderer's perversing the path of justice, while TWS is charged with corporate manslaughter.

For almost a thousand years, Cantre'r Gwaelod and its land sunken below Cardigan Bay (left). Now that there are potential geographical clues for the defunct kingdom, there are also physical evidence for the ruins. One island is off the coast of Aberystwyth and Aberdyfi, with the other further north towards Barmouth, Gwynedd. On the Medieval Gough Map (right), the 'Welsh Atlantis' is the oldest living complete map of the British Isles, earliest dating it dates back to about 1280. Simon Haslett and David Willis (inset middle) made the discovery and backed up data with Ptolemy's ancient world map of the fifteenth century (inset middle).