The Co-op was today fined £400,000 over the death of a devoted customer who slipped on water from a leaking display that had been faulty for nearly two days.
Retired railway clerk Stanley May, 74, a lifelong supporter of the supermarket, hit his head on the floor and died in hospital two days later.
A court heard that the water leaked from a faulty sandwich chiller but customers had not been prevented from entering the area at the branch in Truro, Cornwall.
Staff had mopped...
