THE manager of a block of flats where two teenage jockeys were killed in a blaze has appeared in court charged with breaching fire regulations.

Alan Foster, 65, faces charges relating to The Tannery in Buckrose Court, Norton , where Jan Wilson and Jamie Kyne died in September, 2009.

Foster, also of Buckrose Court in Commercial Street, appeared before Scarborough Magistrates Court yesterday on 17 charges relating to fire precautions.

He was granted unconditional bail and committed to York Crown Court, where he will appear on October 1. The charges are all of failing to comply with articles relating to the Fire Safety Order 2005.

Jan Wilson, 19, and Jamie Kyne, 18, both died when fire swept through Buckrose Court three years ago.

Peter William Brown, 39, was jailed indefinitely in December 2010 after being convicted of manslaughter, having started the fire.

Last year, Brown lost an appeal against his conviction after his lawyers failed in claiming that his trial at Leeds Crown Court was unfair. They had said the evidence did not rule out the possibility of the fire starting accidentally.

His trial heard Brown, of Brotherton, near Selby , had been refused entry to a party at the building and had started the fire as an act of revenge.

The court heard that after starting the fire, he had hindered those trying to save the flats’ residents by his “confrontational actions”.