HS2 clerk’s fatal fall from sixth floor was ‘accidental’

A House of Commons clerk overseeing the controversial HS2 rail link fell to his death on the day he was due to deliver a vital presentation on the project, an inquest head. Neil Caulfield, 51, used a chair to climb over the balcony railings in an office block before he fell from a sixth floor. His body was found at the Washington Building in the OneE8 development on Deals Gateway, Deptford, Southwark Coroner’s Court heard. A coroner found that Mr…