A painting firm boss was facing jail today over safety blunders that led to a worker being flung more than 26 feet to his death when a cherry picker was struck by a bus on a Perthshire street.
Kevin Bowie, 38, failed to take any steps to ensure that the machine was segregated from traffic while Mikey McArthur was decorating dormer windows on a busy street in a tourist town, a sheriff ruled.
A single-decker tour bus struck the "knuckle" of the cherry picker - which was protruding into the line of traffic - after the driver misjudged the available clearance.
