A heartbroken dad hopes safety reforms for multi-storey car parks can be implemented to ensure his teenage son's death was not in vain.
Maria Eagle, Labour MP for Garston and Halewood, fought back tears as she proposed Gabe's Law to the House of Commons in memory of Gabriel Santer. The 15-year-old died after falling from the open roof of a multi-storey car park in Liverpool city centre in October 2020. An open verdict was returned at the Calderstones student's inquest.
Ms Eagle told the Commons yesterday afternoon: "Gabe’s father, my constituent Jonny Santer, is determined to ensure that Gabe’s death will not be in vain. He wants to make sure that no other person finds it so shockingly easily possible to fall from an open-roofed multi-storey car park. I want to help him achieve that aim."
