Who cut the safety wire that could have saved the young scaffolder’s life?
Detectives and safety experts claimed at a coroner’s inquest this week that it is impossible to find out who snipped the green-and-yellow wire – commonly known as the earth wire – which ran through a faulty light fitting on the Mayford council estate in Somers Town. In simple terms, if the safety wire had not been cut, the deadly current that killed Mr Kennedy when he touched the light in September last year would have been diverted out of harm’s way. Instead the lamp, a security light on a wall of the estate, had become a deathtrap, and Mr Kennedy, 24, was hit with a fatal shock as he worked on Mayford’s refurbishment. The main theory, revealed at the inquest at St Pancras Coroner’s Court, is that the safety wire was deliberately cut as a “quick fix” to repair a faulty lamp that may have been causing other lights in a series to fail. Council chiefs said yesterday (Wednesday) that there was no way of guaranteeing that every light fitting on every estate was safe – without checking them
