A building site manager has been jailed for 30 months last Friday after a father-of-two working on the site plunged through a ceiling onto hard concrete and died.
Faruk Patel was in charge of safety on the site in Leicester where Tasadaq Ur-Rehman was installing windows when he fell on January 24 last year. He suffered severe head injuries and died a few days later in hospital.
Patel (40) admitted breaching health and safety rules on the site but denied his negligence amounted to manslaughter.
However, a jury at Birmingham Crown Court this morning found him guilty of manslaughter after less than two hours of deliberations.
The judge, the Honourable Mr Justice Saunders, sentenced Patel at 2pm this afternoon. He said: "The defendant paid no regard to health and safety whatsoever. It is clear to me the defendant had no idea of the responsibility he had for maintaining safety on the site. There was a high risk of a fall onto the concrete floor. The risk of death or serious injury was high."
He told Mr Ur-Rehman's family, who were in court, that the sentence he passed down was "not intended, nor could it, reflect the loss of Mr Ur-Rehman's life."
Patel will spend the first 15 months of his sentence in prison before being released on licence.
