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Islington Tribune - by SARA NEWMAN
Published: 26 September 2008

Surveyor killed in train leap

A SENIOR executive who had been overlooked for promotion threw himself under a train at Farringdon Station, an inquest has heard.
Chartered surveyor Peter Cleary, 50, was due at the offices of Westminster-based property company Land Securities, where he had worked for 20 years, but never arrived on March 3.
Earlier that morning he had waved to his wife Mary when she returned from dropping their children at school in St Albans. He then bought whisky from a shop in Mill Hill and at 2pm jumped in front of a Circle line train at Farringdon Station.
A few weeks before his death he had been told that a restructuring at his company would mean somebody would be filling a new position above him.
Land Securities human resources director Angela Williams told a St Pancras inquest last week: “He may have seen it as a loss of status that someone was above him and he did voice those concerns but he was very important to us.”
Verdict: suicide.

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