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Sister of dead electrician backs culpable homicide bill
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THE sister of an electrician killed at work has backed a proposed law which would give families new ways to pursue corporate killers.

Louise Taggart, whose brother Michael Adamson was killed in 2005, said Labour MSP Claire Baker’s culpable homicide bill would “plug the justice deficit.”

Mr Adamson was just 26 when he was electrocuted while connecting live wires which had been marked “not in use.”

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