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		</div><p>Designer brand Hugo Boss has been fined £1.2m in England over the death of a four-year-old boy who was killed when an 18-stone mirror crushed him in a shop changing room.</p>
<p>Austen Harrison died after suffering severe head injuries when the 7ft mirror, which had been left standing free rather than being attached to a wall, toppled on to him at a Hugo Boss pop-up store in Bicester Village, Oxfordshire.</p>
<p>The youngster was left with irreversible brain damage after the huge mirror &#8211; described as being balanced upright like a “domino piece” – came down on top of him as he visited the store on June 4 2013 with his parents Simon and Irina Harrison.</p>
<p>Austen, from Crawley, West Sussex, died four days later at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital.</p>
<p>An inquest concluded the mirror should have been fixed to a reinforced wall, while coroner Darren Salter described the incident as “an accident waiting to happen”.</p>
<p>Hugo Boss later admitted offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.</p>
<p>At Oxford Crown Court Judge Peter Ross said “it would have been obvious to the untrained eye” that the mirror posed a risk, saying it was “nothing short of a miracle” that it had not fallen before.</p>
<p>There had been numerous “near misses” with mirrors at other stores across the country, the judge said, adding that Hugo Boss had a “corporate responsibility”, and that he was sure that the health and safety breach went “to the very top of the company”.</p>
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