Cable ties compromising fence integrity
British Transport Police received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 23 Jul 2015 and 28 May 2021.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“Evidence suggested that some parts of the perimeter fencing were secured with cable ties”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ British Transport Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“There has been an extension to the palisade fencing to prevent access by climbing around the side of the fencing to the over bridge that carries the disused line from which [the deceased] climbed down.”
- 5 years 10 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Christine Gould↗
28 May 2021 · Nicholas Moss QC · Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner“In [name redacted]' case, earlier consideration to the fence boundary being a credible route of access may have led to the fence boundary being improved more quickly after her death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ British Transport Police responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“Following notification of the Regulation 28 report, a member of the Investigation Review Team within the British Transport Police was commissioned to review the investigation of [the deceased], the scope of this review was limited to the matters of concern. This review offered recommendations of which a number are included within this response.”
- All reports to British Transport Police
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2015 → 2021Christine Gould5 years 10 months after Ashley Matthews · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight that inadequate perimeter fencing allowed unauthorized access to the railway site. The later report focuses on the need to treat the fence boundary as a credible access route and improve it promptly.
Ashley Matthews · 23 Jul 2015
“Evidence suggested that some parts of the perimeter fencing were secured with cable ties”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Christine Gould · 28 May 2021
“In [name redacted]' case, earlier consideration to the fence boundary being a credible route of access may have led to the fence boundary being improved more quickly after her death.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“There has been an extension to the palisade fencing to prevent access by climbing around the side of the fencing to the over bridge that carries the disused line from which [the deceased] climbed down.”
Stated action
“There has been an extension to the palisade fencing to prevent access by climbing around the side of the fencing to the over bridge that carries the disused line from which [the deceased] climbed down.”
Stated action
“Following notification of the Regulation 28 report, a member of the Investigation Review Team within the British Transport Police was commissioned to review the investigation of [the deceased], the scope of this review was limited to the matters of concern. This review offered recommendations of which a number are included within this response.”
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to British Transport Police at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2021 | 0.64 | 0.16 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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