curtains

Plymouth Magistrates' Court heard the newcomer to the firm had been moving strip curtains in the loading bay before being struck by the lorry.

Samworth Brothers, of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, admitted it did not train Mr Clarke in how to operate the curtains, breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.

There was no safe system of work to move them out of the way when the lorries reversed into the loading bay and staff had not been provided with training or instructions on how to move the curtains.

I didn’t want to risk distraction from the world on the wrong side of the glass, so I kept the curtains drawn.

And the one thing horror has taught me is that you can wish it away, you can lock the doors and draw the curtains, you can even burn it alive—but the past always comes back.