An architect who was jailed for setting fire to a client’s £67,000 luxury car and threatening his family in a row about work on their home has been struck off from the profession.

Christopher Richard Chapman, of Berkshire-based Christopher Chapman Associates, was handed a 26-month sentence over the incidents by a judge at Slough Crown Court last year.

Last week the Architects Registration Board’s Professional Conduct Committee removed 68-year-old Chapman from the register of architects because of his behaviour and the conviction that resulted from it.

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