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Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Brixton O2 Academy faces indefinite closure as Met Police ‘loses confidence’ in operator after deadly crush

The Brixton O2 Academy faces the possibility of indefinite closure after the Met Police urged the council to strip the venue’s operator of their licence in the wake of a deadly crowd crush that killed two people.

A crush at an Asake gig in December claimed the lives of Gabrielle Hutchinson, 23, a security worker, and mother-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, also leaving a third person critically injured.

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