A British court has fined the country's athletics body £350,000 ($471,600) over the “wholly avoidable” death of a UAE Paralympian who was killed a a practice cage collapsed on his head.A father of five, Abdullah Hayayei, 36, was preparing to represent the UAE at the World Para Athletics Championships in London when the 440-pound metal structure fell on him at Newham Leisure Centre, East London, on July 11, 2017.The 5ft-high cage toppled over because it was put up incorrectly and without its base plate, in an “accident waiting to happen”.UK Athletics pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter and was fined £350,000 plus £44,000 in costs, to be paid over six years.The incident happened five years after UK Athletics had acquired two cages originally used in the 2012 Olympic Games. The cages had never been properly assembled with the base plates attached, the court heard. One collapsed in 2012, but no injuries were reported on that occasion.Before the fatal incident, the cages had been used at five public events, including anniversary games in Stratford and at Swansea University Stadium.“Over this period, very many athletes will have been within the cages and many more standing or passing close by,” said prosecutor John Price KC. “It was a perennial hazard, or to use a familiar phrase, an accident waiting to happen.”Screengrab from a video featuring Emirati para athlete Abdullah HayayeiInfoKeith Davies, 79, who was head of sport for the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships, admitted a health and safety charge and was sentenced to a community order of 175 hours' unpaid work.At sentencing, Judge Richard Marks KC said the death of Mr Hayayei was “tragic, untimely and wholly avoidable”.The judge noted failings by UK Athletics were not a “one off” but said any financial penalty would “weaken” its ability to support individual athletes and athletics in the community.He told retired PE teacher Davies that he knew, or ought to have known, that base plates were an “integral part” of the cage construction.Following the earlier collapse of an identical cage, he was “on notice”, and the judge said, “This was an accident which sooner or later was waiting to happen.”Keith Davies, head of sport for the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships, arrives at court. PAInfoBadriah Hayayei, a widow, gave an impact statement to the court on the fallout suffered by her and her five children. “I hope the court takes a just stance against everyone who caused this because what happened was not just a simple mistake but the result of negligence, gross negligence, that could have been avoided if safety procedures adhered to.“My husband went out to represent his country and raise the name of the UAE but he returned as a corpse because of this negligence.”The court heard that Mr Hayayei, who had cerebral palsy, had been due to compete in the para athletics shot-put event at the World Para Athletics Championships in Stratford.