Lift supervisor killed by reversing telehandler

A self-employed telehandler driver has been given a suspended jail sentence after he reversed over his colleague on a construction site in Cheshire, causing fatal injuries.
In June 2023, 49-year-old James Connolly was working as a lift supervisor on a large construction site in Ince, Ellesmere Port, where Michael Nixon was working as a telehandler operator.
On the morning of 11 June, whilst walking back to his work area from the welfare compound, Connolly was struck and reversed over by the tele