LONDON: UK Athletics has been fined £350,000 ($472,000) over the “wholly avoidable” death of a Paralympian who was killed when equipment fell on him at a training center in London in 2017. Abdullah Hayayei, 36, was killed while preparing for the World Para Athletics Championships, which took place in July of that year. A 5-foot-high (152-centimeter) metal cage toppled over because it was put up incorrectly and without its base plate, in an “accident waiting to happen,” the London court heard. UK Athletics Ltd.

Abdullah Hayayei was killed in training cage in 2017 and family has called for those responsible to face 'just' punishment

Abdullah Hayayei, 36, was fatally injured as he trained for the World Paralympic Athletics Championships at Newham Leisure Centre in east London on July 11, 2017.