THE owner of a fireworks company and his son who were jailed over the deaths of two firemen after a huge blast at their family-run firm are to appeal.
Martin Winter, 52, and his 25-year-old son Nathan Winter have lodged an appeal against their sentence and conviction, officials at the Court of Appeal in London said.
Martin Winter was handed a seven-year jail term and his son was sentenced to five years after being convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence at Lewes Crown Court in December last year.
Their sentences followed the deaths of retained firefighter Geoff Wicker, 49, and support officer Brian Wembridge, 63, of East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service.
The pair died after a massive explosion at the Winter family’s Festival Fireworks UK site at Marlie Farm in Shortgate, near Lewes, on December 3, 2006.
