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Lucy Skoulding

Man, 28, crushed to death in freak garden accident after climbing into hammock

A man in his twenties has died in a freak accident after he climbed into a hammock and a wall collapsed on him.

The family of James Douglas, 28, were left "heartbroken" after a garden pillar collapsed onto him at his family home and he died at the scene.

James, a property developer, arrived back from work at around tea time on Good Friday (April 15) and climbed into the hammock at the home in Tunstall Village Green, Sunderland, the Sun reports.

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