'Don't write them off' say friends and family of missing Rotherham demolition workers

Another protest is planned by the friends and families of John Shaw and Ken Cresswell who've been missing in the wreckage of Didcot Power Station for three weeks.

Published 15th Mar 2016

The friends and families of two Rotherham demolition workers, trapped in the wreckage of Didcot power station, will be returning to the site again.

Ken Cresswell and John Shaw still haven't been found.

It's now three weeks since part of the building collapsed in Oxfordshire.

Their relatives, this time joined by demolition and construction workers, will be staging another peaceful protest this weekend calling for more to be done to recover their loved ones as soon as possible.

The police and health and safety executive say it remains their priority to find them but Ken and John's relatives don't think enough's being done to find them.

Nadia Shepperson's a family friend of the Cresswells.

She's organised the protest and said:

"Something has got to happen. Somebody has got to listen. They just can't leave three men under that rubble. We're living and praying. We know in our gut that they're alright down there. No one can write them off so why isn't anything been done to get them out?

"There are a lot of guys from the demolition and construction industry who want to be there as well so I think there's going to be quite a few thousand down there this Sunday. It's going to be a lot bigger. The families still aren't getting any answers so we need to keep going."

Nadia has started a fundraising page to pay for coaches to take the families and other supporters down from South Yorkshire.

She added:

"They've not said anything. It's me that's done this. It's not anything to do with the family as such but I just feel like they do need help. They don't want to be worrying about bills and stuff at a time like this. They just don't."

A third man from Wales, Chris Huxtable, is also still missing.

The funeral of one of their colleagues, Mick Colllings, who was killed in the collapse has taken place in North Yorkshire.