Top telly man killed by asbestos

A top TV producer blamed working in asbestos filled theatres as a young actor for the rare cancer that killed him. Trevor Hopkins, 66, worked on shows like Poirot, Fortitude, the remake of 1960’s cult series The Prisoner and The Indian Detective, Before he died at his home in Marrakech he wrote of his condition and said ‘During the course of my employment I have been exposed to asbestos.’ His first job was working in Steel, Peech and Tozer’s Rotherham…