Jovanni Peddie, 14, died in 2011 after falling from a tower block on London's Aylesbury Estate.
Jovanni Peddie fell to his death from a tower block in 2011 and his mother is calling for action on high-rise safetyIn 2011, her 14-year-old son Jovanni fell to his death from the sixth floor of their family home in the Missenden block of London's Aylesbury Estate.
"It's heartbreaking to think that lessons haven't been learned by local authorities, and more families are experiencing the same nightmare we went through."after falling from an upper floor of a flat in Kennington, south-east London - two tragedies in the space of a few days in the capital. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said London has a very large number of high rises thereby increasing the people falling from a height.
In June 2016, a severely autistic seven-year-old girl fell from the 11th floor of her tower block in Clerkenwell In 2005, former Conservative leader Michael Howard infamously dubbed the Aylesbury Estate "Hell's waiting room".The tragedy of Jovanni's death on that estate, is compounded by its seeming preventability.
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