MERSEYSIDE businessman Taj ul Malook Mann has been fined £112,000 after a labourer died after falling from a roof on a Toxteth industrial unit just months after another worker was injured at the same site in a fall.

Dad-of-two John McCleary, 51, was left paralysed from the waist down when he fell 15ft while fitting roof panels at a construction site in High Park Street, Toxteth.

The site was managed by Mr Mann and Mr McCleary died of pneumonia seven months later as a result of his injuries.

Mr Mann, of Queens Drive, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive and Liverpool Crown Court heard how Mr McCleary had to carry out the job while standing on four-inch wide steel beams after no scaffolding was supplied, leading to him lose his balance and fall.

He underwent an eight hour operation after the incident on June 12, 2008 and was re-admitted to hospital that December with illnesses related to his condition. He died on January 27, 2009.

During the HSE investigation, video footage was discovered which had been filmed by Mr McCleary on his mobile phone in the weeks before his fall.