A food waste recycling company was fined £2 million after being found guilty of corporate manslaughter in the deaths of two employees who drowned after falling into a semi-liquid pig feed tanker on the road.
Nathan Walker, 19, and Gavin Rawson, 35, were killed in the incident at Greenfeeds Ltd in Normanton, bottesford/">Bottesford, Leicestershire, in December 2016. The Leivers family, which included Ian Leivers and his wife Gillian Leivers, owned and ran the company, which produced bio-fuel and pig feed from recycled products and delivered it via road haulage tankers.
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