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A SECURITY GUARD who was on duty during a concert at the O2 Academy Brixton has become the second woman to die of injuries sustained in a crowd crush at the venue.
Gabrielle Hutchinson, 23, was one of three people badly hurt when ticketless fans tried to get into a show by Nigerian artist Asake at the south London venue last Thursday.
The Metropolitan Police said Ms Hutchinson was working as security at the venue.
Chief Superintendent Colin Wingrove said: “It is devastating news that a second person has lost their life following the events on Thursday.
“I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to Gabrielle’s family at this unimaginably difficult time.”
The force said the three women critically injured in the crush were all in the foyer of the building.
A 21-year-old woman remains seriously ill in hospital.
Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, from Newham, east London, died in hospital on Saturday.
Her family paid tribute to the “adorable mother of two” who was a nursing graduate.
In a statement, Asake said he was “devastated” and “overwhelmed with grief” by news of her death.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said City Hall is in contact with venues and authorities across the capital to make sure “nothing like this happens again”.
Scotland Yard previously said a woman was arrested for assaulting an officer over the incident and investigators were looking at footage on social media and from body-worn cameras.
The incident has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct under standard practice following incidents where police had been in attendance and members of the public had been seriously injured.
Asake, whose real name is Ahmed Ololade, was recently nominated for BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2023 award – for artists breaking through in the UK.
Ahead of the gig, he urged fans not to go to the venue without a valid ticket.
The concert was the third of three sold-out dates at the 4,921-standing capacity venue and concluded a run of UK dates.
Academy Music Group, which owns and runs music venues across the UK, previously said in a statement: “All at O2 Academy Brixton and Academy Music Group are deeply saddened by the news of the tragic death of Rebecca Ikumelo.
“We send our heartfelt condolences to Rebecca’s family and friends, and our thoughts are with everyone affected by this devastating news at this extremely difficult time.”
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Kinda obvious. Everything is down.. Uncertainty during a pandemic and all that
@Jim O Brien Tech: Not to some on here, I was explaining to someone when house prices would fall by at least 20 percent and they actually told me they would rise next year lol…..totally delusional, he must have been an estate agent or something like that.
Collapse in employment, collapse in lending, higher taxes, will all lead to massive drops in house prices and rents…..its in the post, it might take a couple of years to filter through but it will.
@Peter Hughes: For house prices and rents…its location,location.location. Sligo/Leitrim, Donegal or Roscommon will suffer the most. Dublin would be much more solid.
@Peter Hughes: Well rent is still very high in Dublin. We are in process of finding new accomodation and people are still willing to pay 2k for 2bed average standard apartment. Some guy I heard moving out of his apartment at the end of the month. A reasonable 1-bed in D15.
And his landlord put it up on Friday morning. They were inundated with requests by Sunday and withdrew it. He couldn’t believe it to be honest; he thought it would be slow going for months to come.
@artur filip: The economy is been held together with the covid payment, when that dries up things will change. Hundreds of thousands of people will have no job……its all in the post.
@Ronan Mc Namara:
enchant reality. I think you’ll say whatever you want reality to be.
The same explanations like 12 years ago.
100% expected.
Looking forward to some great value houses coming to market……….12% drop in prices would suit me fine. Every cloud has a silver lining.
@Ronan Mc Namara:
Not if you’re selling a property in order to buy a new one
It’s value will also be down 12%
Double edge sword
@Steven Wynne: Aint necessarily so……….12% increase you would be in the same boat when selling.
@Ronan Mc Namara:
The res property mkt in
@Steven Wynne: A lower house value by a seller should result in a lower commission payment to an Estate Agent. It’s a win win for a seller who intends to buy/trade up/trade down. House prices will fall fast as only estate agents think it’s location, location. The location attracts the premium payment for a desired location only. The real driver is national income (unemployment/income/taxes/debt). All these are negative which will result in a property crash!
Everyone is expecting an economic crash like we had 10 years ago and prices to drop the same…this is a different set of circumstances. There is no surplus of new housing to buy, people thinking of selling may not, people buying have money and savings as the requirement from central bank last few years.
@Bleurgh: Also new housing regulations make it increasingly incredibly expensive to build a house now. 12% drop in housing prices = no profit for builders = no houses/unemployment.
@Bleurgh: House prices are dependent on these things……available credit, employment and taxes. We are going to be borrowing 10s of billions and if we somehow manage to keep the interest rates down then we should be able to manage that.
But we have to pay said money back, which will mean big tax increases in the coming years, employment will also collapse for the next couple of years. Banks will also drastically cut loan amounts, these will all hammer house prices and all the wishful thinking on the planet won’t stop it……
@Bleurgh: exactly… we were going to sell next year but if price drops to much won’t bother..
@Bleurgh:
enchant reality. I think you’ll say whatever you want reality to be.
You use the same explanations like 12 years ago.
I don’t really buy the economic uncertainty – you’re either working or you’re not based on the lockdown. I can’t see why people who are still working would be refused a mortgage.
Fingers crossed the prices drop a nice bit, the stress on supply will still be there as vendors may remove houses from the market
@@itweet_jake: Not having a mortgage is the key to buying a house. No point getting a
mortgage for a property that will lose 12% of its value.
Then having a crying face blaming the banks and government lol!
@@itweet_jake: the real pain hasn’t even begun yet. The economy has been on life support which will slowly be weaned off. When it is I’d expect a huge amount of corporate insolvencies which will lead to more job losses and it won’t be just low paid workers.
@@itweet_jake: we have been refused a mortgage by all the banks because my partner is receiving one days worth of covid payment through the company she works for…. Flat out refusal even though we have a substantial deposit and are earning in excess of 60k. Have emailed paschal and got the usual “we’re doing all we can” reply
@Cupid Stunt: Trust me you will be grateful for this in the coming years…..people don’t seem to understand just how bad things are at all…..its really disturbing and I can see how some get taken to the cleaners so easy I really can…..totally delusional and detached from reality.
@Cupid Stunt: sorry, this may seem like a silly question, but how does one get just a 1 day covid payment. As far as I understood if your on the pup you have to be fully laid of on a temp basis due to pandemic and therefore recieve full payment of 350 otherwise the only other covid payment is the subsidy scheme which falls under same criteria but your company is able to afford to pay 70% of your weekly wage and government pays the remaining 30% up to 410euros. What covid payment pays for 1 day only? I’m not trying to be smart here, I’m honestly confused so if anyone could let me know it would be greatly appreciated. I obviously have misunderstood the information out there somehow.
@Sam Glynn: he might have mean, that his partner was making 350 a day prior to covid… but only @Cupid Stunt can confirm that.
I see that people try to enchant reality, .
They say whatever they want reality to be.
The same explanations were used 12 years ago.
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