A witness who was working in the Stardust on the night of the blaze has told an inquest of how he had to use his bike lamp to help an assistant manager find a set of keys to open a locked door in order to exit.
A WITNESS WHO was working in the Stardust on the night of the blaze has told an inquest of how he saw the flames “creep out along the wall like a mushroom”, and how he had to use his bike lamp to help an assistant manager find a set of keys to open a locked door in order to exit.
“I looked towards the curtain, and I saw a bloke sort of falling against it. I saw the curtain fly up and I saw the back of a chair on fire. The carpet under the chair was on fire as well. It spread towards the wall at the back, which was also carpeted, and that started to go on fire,” said McNamee. Further evidence was heard from Liz Marley, who was 18 when she was working in the Stardust. In her original statement, which was read out by the court registrar, Marley said she saw smoke across the ceiling.
In her additional deposition, Marley said that a seating area was screened off, and when she was passing this section, she got a smell of smoke that “smelt like fabric burning”. The statement of an unavailable witness, Harold Gardner, was also read out to the jury by a member of the coroner’s legal team. Gardner was an architectural draftsman who worked on the revised plans for the Stardust, which were approved in 1978.
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