Marks & Spencer pays £1.6m for turning ‘blind eye’ to asbestos risks

A JUDGE has criticised Marks and Spencer’s failure to make a “proper, full apology” for putting its staff, shoppers and construction workers at risk of exposure to asbestos fibres during refurbishment work at its Reading store in 2006.

Fining the retailer £1 million at Bournemouth Crown Court in September, Judge Christopher Clark said there had been “systemic failure” on the part of M&S’s management and the firm had fallen “significantly below the standards required by law” during work to remove asbestos insulating board in ceiling tiles and elsewhere.

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