Surveyor fined for asbestos breach

A surveyor has been fined for failing to carry out asbestos inspection work on a refurbishment job in Birmingham.

Raymond Joseph Boyle of Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, was convicted of a breach of The Control of Asbestos Regulations after undertaking demolition work that exposed people to asbestos.

He was fined £4,000 in total and ordered to pay costs of £4,016 at Birmingham Magistrates Court.