The accounts manager at a food waste plant in Leicestershire has been jailed for 13 years on two counts of corporate manslaughter and a breach of H&S law after two employees died in a confined space incident.

Her husband, the managing director, was jailed for 20 months for breach of H&S law.

Read the Guardian story here.

This is certainly an attention-grabbing sentence. Proponents of a corporate manslaughter law mainly advocate it on the grounds of justice rather than in the expectation of prompting improvement.

Nevertheless, it would be nice to think such a sentence might persuade firms in the UK operating in the same sector to take another look at their H&S practices. Does anyone think it would?