Electrician told police deadly lights were ‘perfectly safe’

An electrician accused of causing the death of a seven-year-old boy who was fatally shocked by pub garden lights told police he ‘assumed’ the circuit was ‘tickety boo.’ Harvey Tyrrell suffered a massive surge of up to 230 volts when he sat on a wall lamp and touched a metal railing, jurors heard. He had been playing with his young friend in the patio area when he froze and slumped to the ground at the King Harold pub in Romford,…

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