The owner of a carwash has been jailed and fined £20,000 following the death of an employee due to electrocution.

Sandu Laurentiu worked at Bubbles Carwash in Tower Hamlets, where he was fatally electrocuted in the shower in August 2015.

The accommodation next door to the business premises had been set up by owner Shaip Nimani, of Purley Avenue in Childs Hill, who has now been jailed for manslaughter.

It was revealed during Nimani’s trial at the Old Bailey last week Mr Laurentiu had been living in cramped, rat-infested conditions in railyway arches with five other Romanian men.

Mr Laurentiu previously told police the men would receive electric shocks in the shower.

He was taken to the Royal London Hospital by ambulance after collapsing in the shower on August 19 2015, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators discovered Nimani had the men living in wet, infested accommodation with bad wiring and plug overloads which were a fire risk and the meter had been bypassed to avoid paying for electricity.

Nimani was jailed yesterday (January 16) for four years, ordered to pay £20,000 to Mr Laurentiu’s family and banned from being a company director for 10 years.

A second man, Nusret Nimani from Northolt, was acquitted of manslaughter at the same hearing.