'No revenge' plea over wall death

1 October 2012 Last updated at 14:55 ET

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George Collier (right) is accused of manslaughter due to gross negligence

A jury trying a builder after a wall he designed collapsed and killed a three-year-old girl has been warned not to "seek revenge" for her death.

Meg Burgess was crushed as she walked home with her mother in Meliden, Denbighshire, in July 2008.

Builder George Collier, 49, from Kinmel Bay, denies manslaughter.

Defence barrister Ronald Walker, QC, said it was a "natural human tendency" to want revenge, but said the case had to be judged according to the evidence.

It was not inevitable, it was the result of human error on behalf of one or more persons

Mold Crown Court has heard that the wall failed after pressure from infill which included soil, clay and builders' rubble.

The prosecution claimed Mr Collier, who had 30 years' experience, should have realised the wall was a retaining wall and needed to be secured to the foundations for added strength.

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