A whistleblower has told us security guards at Brixton Academy regularly took bribes to let people in without tickets.
Rebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson both died after the crush. There is no suggestion Ms Hutchinson was involved in taking bribes or offering fake ticketsSome security guards at Brixton Academy regularly took bribes to let people in without tickets, a whistleblower has told the BBC.
"Our company knew what was going on and they knew the people who were doing it," he told the BBC, "and they did nothing about it."He told the BBC there was not enough security on duty that evening at the O2 Brixton Academy - with only 110 members of the security team there, when there should have been 190.Mother of two, Rebecca Ikumelo, 33 - and security guard Gaby Hutchinson, 23 - were both caught up in the crush and later died in hospital.
"You can train someone to the max, but when that happens in front of you, you actually stop… you freeze."Explaining how bribes were paid, Rohan said someone wanting to get into a gig would speak to security staff by the barriers controlling the queue of people waiting to get in. The subject of bribes had also been brought up in briefings and in conversations between managers and bouncers - but no-one had been reprimanded.The BBC has also spoken to someone who got into a gig with a fake ticket at the Brixton Academy the week before the crush.
He said he asked a doorman where he would be able to buy a ticket and was told to go across the street to a cash machine, where he would send someone to sell them a ticket.After some haggling, and despite not trusting the tout, Andre handed over cash and was sent tickets on WhatsApp."As soon as we got there, our tickets got scanned really, really, fast I would say fake scanned and the person just let us in.
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