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Electric shock man loses compensation bid

Feb 28 2010 Sunday Sun

A MAN who lost his leg and suffered horrific burns following a massive electric shock has lost his battle for compensation.

Teesside man Paul Tyrone Mann launched a bid against supplier Northern Electric Distribution Limited for injuries he suffered in 2001.

Mr Mann admitted deliberately climbing over a high steel fence which surrounded an electricity sub station.

He claimed that he had entered the highly dangerous area to recover a football which had been kicked inside.

His legal team had argued that NEDL should have done more to restrict unauthorised access to the sub station.

But a panel of judges at the Appeal Court in London have ruled there was little more NEDL could have done.

Mr Mann was only 15 when he decided to trespass at the sub station in Hartlepool, Teesside.

The court had previously heard how he had jammed a piece of wood on top of fence spikes to enable himself to climb over uninjured.

The court was told that Mr Mann was only electrified after climbing over the fence’s anti-climb devices, walking along a control room roof and then sliding down a telecommunications mast.

Mr Mann, now in his 20s, then climbed up a 14ft drain pipe onto the top of a transformer where he made contact with an exposed bar.

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