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A property manager will need to pay more than £22,000 after a flat he was in charge of was found to have serious fire safety faults.

Waheed Afzal, of Appletree Lane, Slough, admitted six charges of breaching fire regulations at a flat above a takeaway in the town’s High Street.

Royal Berkshire Fire Authority said Afzal failed to install a linked fire detection system between the flat and the takeaway and that it had "inadequate" fire doors.

The authority said the case showed businesses "must take their commitments to fire safety seriously”.

Afzal, 35, was fined £16,000 and will pay £4,646.82 in costs and a £2,000 victim surcharge – a total of £22,646.82.

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