A landlord has been jailed for violating fire safety regulations after a blaze that killed a Scots apprentice jockey and a fellow rider.

Jan Wilson, 19, from Forfar, Angus, perished along with Irish jockey Jamie Kyne, 18, when fire ripped through a block of flats in Malton, North Yorkshire, in 2009.

Labourer Peter Brown was jailed for a minimum of seven-and-a-half years in 2010 for setting fire to the flat in a drunken revenge attack after being refused entry to a party.

Brown, then 37, of Brotherton, North Yorkshire, was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter at Leeds Crown Court.

Yesterday, at the same court, flat owner Alan Foster, 65, was jailed for a year, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service confirmed.

Foster, from Malton, admitted four charges of breaching fire safety regulations – charges that included violations such as storing combustible material within a stairway, failing to manage fire precautions and failing to carry out a fire risk assessment.

Two of these charges related to Buckrose Court, where the jockeys died.

But the investigators said they were alarmed that Foster continued to fail in his duties to manage and maintain fire safety within a neighbouring property two years after the fire.

Area manager Dave McCabe, of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: "The events and circumstances surrounding this case contributed to the tragic and unnecessary loss of life for two young people. The officers of the Fire and Rescue Service have been acutely aware of the effect these losses have had on the families of Mr Jamie Kyne and Miss Jan Wilson.

"This case has been long and complicated to investigate. It is not possible, nor desirable, to continually check up on every premises where the Fire Safety Order applies. The duty to ensure premises are safe lies with 'The Responsible Person'. In this case Foster was 'The Responsible Person' and he failed in his duties."