Boy texts mum what he wants for dinner - then she gets 'bad feeling' and he's found dead

Gabriel Santer, 15, was a keen skateboarder who tragically died aft falling from the sixth level of the Hanover Street Q Park successful Liverpool metropolis centre successful October 2020

A teenage skateboarder texted his mum what helium wanted for meal - hours aboriginal helium was recovered dead.

Gabriel Santer's begetter has launched a run for ineligible betterment pursuing the tragic decease of his son, affectionately known arsenic Gabe, astatine conscionable 15.

The teen from Garston, Liverpool, was an avid skateboarder and would often question retired spots to skate with his mates. On October 3 2020, Gabe was fixed support by his parents to bent retired with friends successful Liverpool metropolis centre - but they became disquieted erstwhile helium didn't travel home.

In a erstwhile interrogation with the Liverpool Echo., his begetter Johnny said: "Gabriel had a curfew of 9pm. Just earlier that time, his mum had messaged him to inquire what helium wanted for beverage and helium messaged backmost that helium wanted ribs and chips.

"Then helium missed his curfew and his mum started to get truly disquieted truly quickly. She had this sixth consciousness that thing truly atrocious had happened."

The young skater's beingness was tragically chopped abbreviated aft helium fell from the sixth level of the Hanover Street Q Park successful Liverpool metropolis centre. An inquest aboriginal disclosed that Gabe had consumed capable intoxicant to severely intoxicate and disorient him astatine the clip of his fall, reports

Coroner Andre Rebello concluded with an unfastened verdict, expressing his content that Gabriel did not mean to extremity his beingness and that the incidental mightiness person been accidental. Johnny is adamant that his son's tragic decease could person been avoided.

He accuses Q Park of ignoring erstwhile warnings to heighten the information measures successful their car parks, specified arsenic expanding the tallness of the apical level perimeter fencing astatine the Hanover Street location. While his archetypal efforts are directed towards Q Park, helium aims to instigate alteration passim the full multi-storey car parkland industry.

In a anterior statement, a typical for Q Park expressed heavy regret for the Santers' nonaccomplishment but maintained that its Hanover Street car parkland had "outperformed gathering regulations." The institution further stated that an autarkic sheet recovered nary responsibility connected Q Park's portion successful Gabriel's untimely death.

Under existent legislation, pedestrian borderline restraints astatine multi-storey car parks indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 1.1m high. Johnny has repeatedly highlighted to Q Park that portion 1.1m whitethorn beryllium the ineligible requirement, they should strive to transcend this minimum modular to guarantee nationalist safety.

Last year, Maria Eagle MP introduced the Multi-Storey Car Parks (Safety) Bill, besides known arsenic Gabe's Law, to Parliament. Due to a alteration successful Government, the measure volition request to beryllium reintroduced, which is expected to hap aboriginal adjacent year.

The projected legislation, dubbed 'Gabe's Law', could revolutionise information successful multi-story car parks by raising the minimum ineligible tallness of barriers from 1.1m to a towering 2.7m and mandating round-the-clock staffing astatine these sites. Meanwhile, Gabe's father, Johnny, has teamed up with skate store Lost Art and Liverpool John Moores University's School of Art and Design for a heartwarming cause.

Together, they're acceptable to unveil a bid of skateboard designs earlier auctioning them disconnected to the highest bidder. The proceeds volition spell to mental health charities Mind and The Ben Raemers Foundation, which immunodeficiency members of the skateboarding community, arsenic good arsenic to The Trussell Trust, a foundation warring poverty.

Johnny expressed his gratitude successful a statement: "The skate assemblage has travel unneurotic to assistance rise the illustration of Gabe's Law and to enactment my run for the improvement of an Olympic skatepark successful the city. I'm grateful to Lost Art for donating the utilized skateboard decks, the artists and students for their innovative designs and look guardant to seeing the artwork and highlighting immoderate of the issues applicable to the skate community, who often consciousness marginalised."

Adding to this, Mike O'Shaughnessy from the graphic plan and illustration programme astatine the School of Art and Design commented: "This is simply a unsocial collaboration calved from a idiosyncratic relationship and a tragic event. By joining with skaters, the originative assemblage is not lone helping to support Gabe's tone live and hopefully assistance alteration the instrumentality but besides highlighting the request for a caller world-class skatepark successful the city."

The lawsuit is acceptable to instrumentality spot connected Thursday, December 12 astatine The Atrium Gallery, JLADA Building connected Duckinfield Street, kicking disconnected astatine 6.30pm. If you're funny successful attending the accumulation oregon placing a bid for the boards, driblet an email to hello@gabeslaw.org.

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