A building management company has admitted to breaching health and safety laws after a 'popular, beautiful and ambitious' woman was killed by a wooden panel that fell from a shopping centre during Storm Doris. University worker Tahnie Martin, 29, was walking past a Starbucks when she was hit and killed by a water tank cover that fell from the roof of the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton during the storm on February 23, 2017. After today's hearing, where the building's managers admitted to breaching health and safety laws, Tahnie's parents Rosie and Jim said they had been 'shattered' by the loss of their daughter. An inquest had previously heard that the panel that killed the university worker, from a mothballed plant room, was rotten with corroded fixings and may not have been maintained for almost 20 years. A further hearing will now take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on May 8 before a sentence is passed.

Source: Daily Mail April 04, 2019 17:03 UTC