A company director has been fined £1,200 and ordered to pay costs of £858 after carrying out illegal gas work on a property in the West Midlands.

Ross Kitson, a 29-year-old director of Kitsongas, was prosecuted after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

The HSE found Mr Kitson had carried out work on gas appliances at a property in Manor Park, Kingswinford when neither himself nor the company were registered as Gas Safe.

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Dudley Magistrates' Court heard that after the homeowner alerted HSE, inspectors found Mr Kitson had issued Gas Safe certificates in the name of another company that was registered.

Kitsongas has since ceased trading.

Mr Kitson admitted breaching Section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 between December 2013 and September 2014.

He was also ordered to pay a £120 victim surcharge.

HSE Inspector Paul Cooper said: "The purpose of the Gas Safe Register is to protect the public from gas work being carried out by people who have not been trained and are not competent.

"Mr Kitson and his company were not registered by Gas Safe Register, and by carrying out this work, his actions endangered members of the public, putting them at serious risk of injury and even potentially death."

(LM)