article_snippet: Sentencing was adjourned until today when the trial judge, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, imposed the £200,000 fine.
article_snippet: Mackereth was given a suspended sentence and a fine of £25,000.
article_snippet: the trial judge, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London imposed a total prison sentence of nine months, suspended for two years.
article_snippet: Mr Justice MacDuff awarded costs against the two defendants jointly in the total sum of £90,000.
article_snippet: Liverpool Crown Court was today fined £20,000 .
article_snippet: When announcing the fine to be imposed on Liverpool Crown Court, the trial judge, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London said that what happened was 'in the true sense' an accident: 'It was an avoidable accident but nevertheless an accident; an accident courted by no-one.'
article_snippet: Sentencing Mackereth, Sentencing Mackereth said: 'You do not need me to tell you how far short of your duty you fell.
article_snippet: It was repeatedly brought home to you at the trial. '
article_snippet: You will have to live with the consequences of your actions for the rest of your life.
article_snippet: Liverpool Crown Court may only act through Liverpool Crown Court directors and senior officers. '
article_snippet: Liverpool Crown Court's failure was also your failure - although the full responsibility does not fall on your shoulders.
article_snippet: Rightly you were not charged with gross negligence manslaughter.'
article_snippet: the trial judge, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London told Mackereth: 'I have given the matter careful thought and have reached the conclusion that I should mark the gravity of your offending by imposing a prison sentence, albeit that there are circumstances which enable me to suspend that sentence.'