Died, aged 31, when a construction crane crashed, along with Peter Clark and Michal Whittard.
The reported on the inquest. The crane was on the construction site for the HSBC skyscraper in Canary Wharf. The three men were in a crane, called a climbing frame, being used to lengthen another crane. The inquest failed to establish why the climbing frame began twisting and then crashed 25 storeys to the ground. The full report is .
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Martin Burgess
In memory of Martin Burgess, Peter Clark and Michael Whittard, who died on 21...
Telecommunications engineer and trades union activist. Born in Khartoum, Sudan. While working as an executive officer at Trinity House lighthouse authority, he set up a union branch. In the 1980s, ...
Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Poland, Sudan
It was sparked off by the shooting of Dorothy Groce by the Metropolitan Police. They were looking for her son Michael in relation to a suspected firearms offence, and believed he was hiding in his ...
From the Guardian: "Shaquille {aged 14} was sitting on a bench in St Thomas's Place, {outside his home} just before midnight on Saturday when he was surrounded by a group of around 15 youths, witne...
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