Tube bosses accused of disrespect over second corpse stored in cleaners' mess room

Tube bosses have again been accused of disrespect after a second incident of a body of someone killed by a train being stored in a cleaners mess room.

Victoria line services were suspended at Euston station during the height of last night's evening peak following the fatality at platform five shortly after 4 pm.

The body was then moved to the mess room until around 7.30pm. It is understood there were no suspicious circumstances.

There was widespread disruption to the busy line used by more than 550,000 passengers a day. London Underground (LU) was condemnded in July after it was revealed the body of a man was kept in a cleaners cupboard for five hours at Edgware Road station.

This prompted demands for an inquiry from the RMT union to ensure such a thing "did not happen again."

Mr Crow said today: "This is the second incident of a corpse being stored in a cleaners cupboard or mess room that the RMT has discovered in the past year and the practice is wholly unacceptable.

"Our union representatives are in no doubt that the storing of bodies in this grotesque fashion is down to pressure to get services back running as quickly as possible.

"There has to be a better and more dignified procedure of dealing with these individual tragedies."

A spokesman for Transport for London (TfL) said the ambulance service do not transport the deceased so it is standard procedure for a body to be removed to a secure room within the station to await transfer to the morgure.

He said correct procedures had been followed.
In the Edgware Road incident, the deceased was found by three shocked members of staff who did not know the body was there.

Two cleaners were said to be been disturbed by the find and a woman customer services assistant was said to have been "extremely distressed."