By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline
Published: 18:08 BST, 4 April 2019 | Updated: 18:08 BST, 4 April 2019
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A building management company has admitted to breaching health and safety laws after a 'popular, beautiful and ambitious' woman was killed by a wooden panel that fell from a shopping centre during Storm Doris.
University worker Tahnie Martin, 29, was walking past a Starbucks when she was hit by a water tank cover that fell from the roof of the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton during the storm on February 23, 2017.
Cushman and Wakefield Debenham Tie Leung Limited, the company responsible for managing the building, has now admitted to a health and safety offence that led to the 29-year-old's death.
An inquest had previously heard that the panel, from a mothballed plant room, was rotten with corroded fixings and may not have been maintained for almost 20 years.
