A demolition company director whose “inexperience in the industry and ignorance of the law” caused the death of a friend and colleague has been spared a prison sentence.
One of Joseph Young’s workmen was crushed to death at the site of the former Grampian Country Pork plant in Buckie almost seven years ago when rubble stacked up against an interior wall in a disused abattoir collapsed on top of him.
Divorced father of two Stuart Thompson, who lived near his 36-year-old boss in Bacup, Lancashire, died after being crushed under tonnes of debris.
Young, who faced up to two years in prison for his role in the death, was instead ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work yesterday by Sheriff Sara Matheson at Inverness Sheriff Court.
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