University lecturer fell and drowned in London canal after ‘tripping on dangerous path’

The woman of a dad-of-two who drowned successful Regent’s Canal fears an ‘unsafe’ pathway caused her hubby to autumn successful the water.

Orhan Ekren, 48, disappeared successful Camden connected November 26 aft taking a travel to the superior from Milton Keynes to renew his Visa.

After an agonising hunt on the river, the assemblage of lecturer’s assemblage was yet recovered connected December 15.

His woman Banu told Metro: ‘It was a precise hard time, my 2 daughters were successful a atrocious way.

‘The probe is inactive ongoing truthful it is not wholly wide what happened, but thing caused him to autumn into the water.’

Orhan spent a fewer hours astatine a pub connected the canalside, but aft starting his travel backmost to Euston station, helium disappeared.

Tracking app Life360 shows him abruptly veering disconnected the roadworthy and down a footpath by the canal, and his telephone mislaid awesome astatine 11.23pm.

But Banu said the country on the tow way is shrouded successful acheronian and is frustrated nary CCTV cameras person picked up his movements.

She said: ‘I deliberation helium fell into the h2o by mistake. While Orhan was inactive missing, a vessel proprietor sent maine a representation of breached pavement astatine his past known location.

‘I flagged it to the constabulary and the council, and funnily capable the adjacent time radical who lived connected the barges told maine it was fixed.’

Banu added: ‘If radical are a small drunk it is intelligibly precise unsafe walking done that area.

‘New information measures request to beryllium brought successful consecutive away.’

Orhan’s apparel and backpack were some handed into the police, portion sopping bedewed with canal water, but Banu said it is unclear however they managed to lavation up connected the banks connected their own.

Detective Chief Inspector Sarb Kaur, who led the search, said: ‘This is simply a precise traumatic acquisition and the household are genuinely devastated with the outcome.’

The Canal & River Trust said: ‘We stay shocked astatine this tragic decease and connection our sincere condolences to the household and friends of Dr Ekren.

‘Our foundation volition assistance the coroner successful immoderate mode we tin arsenic Dr Ekren’s decease is investigated.

‘And, whilst millions of visits are made to Camden’s canal each twelvemonth and incidents similar this highly rare, our foundation is keen to found from the probe what tin beryllium learned from this tragic death.’

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