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12/04/2010
Shop Asbestos Killed McClaren
It has emerged that the recently deceased ex-Sex Pistols manager may have died as a result of Asbestos poisoning.
During an interview with a national newspaper yesterday, Malcom McClaren's partner Young Kim suggested the cancer that caused his death may have been caused by the asbestos in his old shop, Sex.
Ms Kim told The Independent On Sunday: "When Malcolm created Sex he broke open the ceiling to make it look like a bomb had hit it.
"I always suspected that shop because it was the only place Malcolm ever really spent any serious length of time in, and there was a lot of construction and changing things.
"Then Ben Westwood said his mother [Vivienne] had mentioned that she'd seen asbestos there. It was board asbestos and it was in the early '70s so there was a lot of it left, and I don't think anyone really did anything about it."
The news coincides with findings released today, from the Institute of Cancer Research, that UK deaths from mesothelioma are the highest in the world.
The report found that more than 2,000 people-a-year were dying from the asbestos-related disease.
Asbestos was a common constituent of floor and ceiling tiles in the 1950s to 80s along with pipe and boiler lagging, roofing sheets on buildings as well as gutters and pipes, cement products, train carriage insulation, brake and clutch linings, gas fires, ovens and floor and ceiling tiles.
(DW)
During an interview with a national newspaper yesterday, Malcom McClaren's partner Young Kim suggested the cancer that caused his death may have been caused by the asbestos in his old shop, Sex.
Ms Kim told The Independent On Sunday: "When Malcolm created Sex he broke open the ceiling to make it look like a bomb had hit it.
"I always suspected that shop because it was the only place Malcolm ever really spent any serious length of time in, and there was a lot of construction and changing things.
"Then Ben Westwood said his mother [Vivienne] had mentioned that she'd seen asbestos there. It was board asbestos and it was in the early '70s so there was a lot of it left, and I don't think anyone really did anything about it."
The news coincides with findings released today, from the Institute of Cancer Research, that UK deaths from mesothelioma are the highest in the world.
The report found that more than 2,000 people-a-year were dying from the asbestos-related disease.
Asbestos was a common constituent of floor and ceiling tiles in the 1950s to 80s along with pipe and boiler lagging, roofing sheets on buildings as well as gutters and pipes, cement products, train carriage insulation, brake and clutch linings, gas fires, ovens and floor and ceiling tiles.
(DW)
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