Developer and builder sentenced after wall collapse kills labourer

A property development company has been fined £100,000 and a building firm director handed a suspended prison sentence after a labourer was fatally crushed while demolishing a wall.
Jakub Fischer, a self-employed labourer, was hired as a subcontractor by North West Facilities Limited to work on a house refurbishment project for Thorndyke Developments Limited on Mansell Road, Liverpool.
The 41-year-old, who was originally from the Czech Republic, was tasked with demolishing a rear yard wall