Body of worker pulled from collapsed Didcot power plant named as Chris Huxtable
The 34-year-old was among four killed when the facility collapsed back in February
A WORKER whose body was pulled from the collapsed Didcot power plant has been named.
Chris Huxtable from Swansea, was one of three men who had remained trapped in the rubble for six months.
And authorities today identified the 34-year-old after the body was recovered on Thursday.
Rescuers formed a guard of honour as the body was recovered from the Didcot power plant - six months since it collapsed.
Fire crews, police and ambulance workers paid their silent respects as the body of Huxtable was pulled from the rubble.
Four were killed when the ten-story boiler house collapsed back in February.
And while the body of Mick Collings was recovered shortly after, recovery crews have been battling the find the other three men since.
The bodies of Chris Huxtable, 34, from Swansea, and Ken Cresswell, 57, and John Shaw, 61, both from Rotherham, were known to remain below the rubble.
The families of all three men were informed when the body was discovered.
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Relatives of the trio travelled to the site to pay their respects and waited through the night to watch the ceremony from a distance.
Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, said the last six months had been a 'living hell' for the families of the three missing men.
She said: "It is such a relief that one of the missing men has finally been found but we must remember that two more are still missing.
"These last six months have been torture for the relatives. My thoughts and prayers go to the Shaw, Cresswell & Huxtable families.
"We will get your men home and give them the dignified funerals they deserve."
Half of the boiler house collapsed while it was being prepared for demolition. The remaining section was brought down using explosives in July.
Three weeks after the accident a search operation for the trapped workers had still not begun.
Families of the men held a protest at the site calling for all the companies involved to hurry up and find their relatives.
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