Meat.info.co.uk is reporting that John Tudor, of Tudor & Sons today pleaded guilty for failing to ensure that the raw and cooked meat during handling, storage, packaging, display and transportation within the business at his premises was protected against contamination likely to render the food unfit for human consumption.

Tudor pleaded guilt to six additional charges last Friday. He will be sentenced for the offences on September 7 and he has been warned he faces a custodial sentence.

Five-year-old Mason Jones died a painful and unnecessary death. On Oct. 30, 2005, Sharon Mills, Mason’s grief-stricken mother, recounted the events leading to her son’s death on BBC Radio Wales:

"His head was soaking wet and he was drifting in and out of consciousness. He was saying silly things, like he could see slugs, and [he was] looking for a fork which he had never had – because he hadn’t eaten anything."

Mason died Oct. 4 from E. coli O157 as part of an outbreak which sickened 161 — primarily schoolchildren — in south Wales. Sharon said that her son’s death was "avoidable" and that lessons "have to be learnt."

"There was nothing wrong with him, only that he ate a dinner – an innocent child eating a dinner. I never thought you could die from E. coli. Never. I had heard of E.coli and I just thought it was food poisoning. I never ever thought Mason would die from it."