Student makes £ 2m compensation claim against landlord

A student who suffered severe burns in a house fire has made a GBP 2 million compensation claim against her landlord.

Layla Skalli was 19 when she suffered 80 per cent burns to all of the skin below her neck in April last year, the Norwich Evening News reports.

This happened when a blaze tore through her flat in Magdalen Street in north Norwich.

Ms Skalli's injury lawyers claim that her landlord, Michael Billings, 55, of Barsham, near Beccles, Suffolk, was negligent as he had failed to install adequate fire precautions in the student's property as well as smoke alarms, fire-fighting equipment and emergency lighting.

Billings was jailed for 30 months on May 7th at Norwich Crown Court, after admitting 14 breaches of health and fire safety laws.

Earlier this month, the Magna Heating Company Limited was prosecuted after one of its employees suffered burns in an accident at work.

Posted by Verity Taylor 

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