Brixton Academy: Security worker dies after Asake gig crush - BBC

A 2nd pistillate has died aft being injured successful a crush astatine a gig astatine London's Brixton O2 Academy.

Gabrielle Hutchinson, 23, who was moving arsenic a information contractor that night, died successful infirmary successful the aboriginal hours of Monday.

The concert, by Afro-pop vocalist Asake, was chopped abbreviated connected Thursday aft a "large fig of people" tried to unit their mode inside, the Met Police said.

Mother-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, from Newham, eastbound London, died connected Saturday.

A 21-year-old pistillate remains successful a captious information successful infirmary pursuing the crush astatine Asake's 3rd sold-out amusement astatine the southbound London venue past week.

The Met said: "At this clip we person established that the 3 women who were critically injured, including Rebecca Ikumelo and Gabrielle Hutchinson who person tragically died, were each successful the foyer of the building."

It added detectives were "working hard to found precisely what happened connected Thursday night", and described the probe arsenic "large and complex".

Police are reviewing CCTV, telephone footage, speaking to witnesses and conducting forensic examinations.

The archetypal officers were reported to beryllium connected the country astatine 21:11 GMT, 7 minutes aft they were called.

Videos connected societal media showed the assemblage stretching from the roadworthy extracurricular to the venue's doors, 1 of which was smashed.

Ch Supt Colin Wingrove, policing commandant for Lambeth and Southwark, said: "It is devastating quality that a 2nd idiosyncratic has mislaid their beingness pursuing the events connected Thursday.

"I privation to explicit my heartfelt condolences to Gabrielle's household astatine this unimaginably hard time."

Florence Eshalomi, the MP for Vauxhall whose constituency includes Brixton, said she felt "utterly heartbroken" by the deaths of the 2 women.

London's politician Sadiq Khan said helium was "devastated".

He said: "Gabrielle, similar Rebecca Ikumelo, had her full beingness up of her and had each close to travel location harmless and good aft her shift, moving astatine Brixton Academy."

Ms Ikumelo was a nursing postgraduate who had been attending the concert.

Her relative Babatunde Oyejide told the BBC she was a "true, peculiar person" and encouraged radical to nonstop prayers to Ms Ikumelo's spouse and children.

He said: "She was a precise loved idiosyncratic successful the neighbourhood and a precise caring person, household orientated. She is going to beryllium genuinely missed and we emotion her forever."

Asake, who had urged fans without tickets not to crook up astatine the venue earlier his archetypal Brixton concert, released a connection pursuing Ms Ikumelo's decease successful which helium said helium was "devastated".

"I americium overwhelmed with grief and could ne'er person imagined thing similar this happening," helium wrote.

Academy Music Group, which owns and runs the venue, antecedently said its "thoughts are with everyone affected by this devastating quality astatine this highly hard time".