Brixton Academy: Tributes to security worker killed in Asake gig crush

The household of a information contractor who died aft being injured successful a crush astatine Brixton O2 Academy person paid tribute to their "selfless" loved one.

Gaby Hutchinson was moving astatine Afrobeats creator Asake's amusement connected Thursday erstwhile a "large fig of people" stormed the southbound London venue.

The 23-year-old, from Gravesend successful Kent, died successful infirmary connected Monday.

Family members said: "Losing our beauteous Gaby is simply a symptom that can't compare."

Police person established that Gaby and 2 different radical were successful the O2 Academy's foyer oregon entranceway country erstwhile they were earnestly wounded successful the crush.

Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, from Newham, eastbound London, died connected Saturday from her injuries and a 21 year-old pistillate remains successful a captious information successful hospital.

In a tribute shared with BBC Newsbeat, household members said Gaby, who utilized "they" and "them" pronouns, was "unapologetically themselves".

"When Gaby loved you, it was with their full heart," relatives said.

"Gaby has bought truthful overmuch love, laughter and inappropriate jokes into our lives and volition everlastingly beryllium our baby, our daughter, our sister, our antheral and our joy.

"Getting 23 years of Gaby's beingness was a blessing and 1 we volition ne'er forget. Gaby volition everlastingly unrecorded connected successful our hearts.

"No-one should spell to enactment and not travel home.

"But Gaby protected those they loved fiercely and it was the aforesaid with Gaby's job."

They added that Gaby, who had been moving arsenic a contractor connected the nighttime of the gig, had "always wanted to enactment with dogs" and dreamt of becoming a canine handler.

The Met Police accidental they are "working hard to found precisely what happened" astatine Thursday's concert.

Officers picture the probe arsenic "large and complex" and the unit has acceptable up an online portal for radical to taxable information, images oregon footage.

The O2 Academy has offered "heartfelt condolences" to Gaby Hutchinson's household and friends.

"We proceed to beryllium devastated by this tragic concern and are afloat supporting the ongoing situation," a connection said.

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