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Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

O2 Academy Brixton operator plans new crowd barriers if venue can reopen after fatal crush

The Brixton O2 Academy wants to install enhanced crowd control barriers if it is allowed to reopen after a fatal crush which killed two and left a third seriously injured.

The Metropolitan Police called for the venue to be stripped of its licence after 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.

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