Boy, 4, died from massive head injuries after mirror fell on him at Hugo Boss store while his father tried on a suit


Austen Harrison (left), of Turners Hill, West Sussex, was playing with a heavy fitting-room mirror while his father Simon (centre) tried on a suit at a Hugo Boss shop (right) when it toppled over and crushed him. He underwent an emergency operation to relieve pressure on his brain following the incident in Bicester, Oxfordshire, but died four days later in hospital after life-support was switched off. An inquest into his death at Oxford Coroner's Court heard that the mirror was not fixed to the wall and that its free-standing position meant it could easily overbalance.

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