A Bromley building contractor has been fined £15,000 after metal railings at his construction site collapsed on a 91-year-old woman.

Fadil Adil, of Coniston Road, was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday (November 19).

The pensioner fractured her hip and shoulder when the fence fell and knocked her to the ground in Bromley High Street in August 2012.

She has been left struggling with her mobility and independence after a long stay in hospital.

Adil, 56, pleaded guilty to one breach of the Construction Regulations 2007 after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

He was fined £15,000, ordered to pay £3,000 in costs and £5,000 compensation.

The court heard Adil was responsible for the two-metre high fence because it surrounded a development he was working on to create flats and a commercial unit.

Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Bernardine Cooney said: “She [the victim] could have been killed, and the fence also posed a clear risk to other passers-by as well as workers on the construction site it served.

“Fadil Adil could and should have done more to prevent that risk as the principal contractor responsible for the site.”

The HSE prosecuted the building contractor back in 2010 after his staff were exposed to asbestos at a construction site he was in charge of in Bromley High Street.

On that occasion he was fined £19,300 and ordered to pay costs of £7,654.