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BOSSES of a bus company who lied about the hours their drivers worked following a fatal accident have been jailed. Vincenzo Casale, managing director of Gorton-based GM Buses and the jointly operated UK North, and former transport chief David Ellis both admitted a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Traffic Commissioner by giving false evidence. The pair ran the company when a 27-year-old sign writer was killed after one of their buses hit his hydraulic lift as he worked next to Wilmslow Road in Rusholme in Christmas 2006. Collision Martin Pilling had been erecting neon signs on a building when the bus struck. He was knocked out of his cabin and under the wheels of the double decker. His death triggered an investigation by the traffic watchdog and the companies were subsequently ordered to take their entire fleet off the road... [read full story]
