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Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall and Georgia Bell

Coroner warns Sadiq Khan of 'failure' to improve Tube safety after pensioner was run over seven times at station

CCTV image of 72-year-old Brian Mitchell sat on a seat at the end of the platform - (Handout)

A coroner has criticised Transport for London for its apparent failure to improve safety in the two years since the “avoidable” death of a man who fell onto the tracks at the capital’s fifth busiest Tube station.

Brian Mitchell, 72, was killed at Stratford station on Boxing Day in 2023 after being unable to climb back onto the platform before being struck by an incoming Jubilee line train.

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