THE father of a Llanbedrog man hopes there is more safety awareness in place after his beloved son died after falling from a lift-shaft whilst working at a stadium in China.

Robin Llyr Evans died on 24 September last year while working at Optics Valley International Tennis Centre in Wuhan, China.

The 20-year-old had been travelling the world with his employee, Hawk Eye, and before his death was working at the tennis centre for the women’s Wuhan Tennis Open.

At an inquest in Caernarfon, Robin’s colleague, Emily Davies, told the court that they had been asked to go to the roof of the stadium to take repeaters to boost a TV signal to other members of their team.

She said: “Me and Robin were sent up to deliver the receivers to other members of the team. We used the circular catwalk to get around the building, but once up there we couldn’t find them.

“We must have taken the wrong direction and decided to try and find the exit to go back down, I heard Robin say he’d found it and then I heard a crash.

“I couldn’t see Robin anywhere, I had no idea where he’d gone. He was a bit ahead of me but he just disappeared. Below me were the stadium seats and I was looking through the catwalk slats but I couldn’t see him.

“I started to panic and then some of the other members of the team arrived wanting to find out where we were, but none of us knew where he’d gone.”

It was then discovered that Robin had fallen down a lift shaft after a panel on top had become dislodged and gave away as he’d stepped onto it.

Emily also stated that she had not seen any warning signs, either in Chinese or English, in the area.

Robin’s father, Gareth Evans, said he was extremely grateful to Emily for providing her version events to allow the family to understand what happened to their beloved son.

He said: “It’s important for us that something like this does not happen again.

“I hope enough safety awareness has been raised following what happened to Robin.

“I am very grateful to Emily for providing us with the information about what happened.”

Pathologist Dr Mark Lord gave the cause of death as head injuries due to a fall from a height.

It is not known how high Robin was when he fell from, but coroner, Dewi Pritchard-Jones, said it was from a “considerable height”.

Mr Pritchard-Jones told the court that he had not received any co-operation from the Chinese authorities about the incident and was thankful to Mr Evans’ family and Hawk Eye’s solicitors for information.

He said: “This was a completely unforeseen event, but if it had happened in this country I would have the power to issue a health and safety directive, but as this happened in China I have no power to do that.”

Mr Pritchard-Jones recorded a verdict of accidental death.