Young mother electrocuted as she mopped up water from leaky boiler died after catalogue of workmen's errors

A catalogue of mistakes by workmen led to a young mother being killed after she was electrocuted while mopping up water at her home.

Emma Shaw, 22, received a fatal electric shock while mopping up the water from the floor of her flat after the heating appliance sprang a leak.

During a seven-day inquest, jurors were told of a series of blunders carried out by employees from Staffordshire firm Electrical and Building Services leading to Miss Shaw’s death on December 14, 2007.

Her son Brayden, then aged 23 months, had been shut in the living room while his mother went to tend to the boiler in a hallway cupboard.

Brayden is now being cared for by his dad, Miss Shaw’s then-partner, gas engineer Andy Cross, 29, who found his girlfriend's body on the floor of the flat in West Bromwich, Sandwell.        More