Tributes to man in digger tragedy
MEN on Sunday|March 05, 2023
Officers arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of gross negligence and manslaughter.
TODD FITZGERALD, SOPHIE HALLE-RICHARDS and NICOLE WOOTTON-CANE
Tributes to man in digger tragedy

TRIBUTES have been paid to a man who died after being hit by a digger at an industrial estate. 

John Graveson, 42, died after colliding with an excavator vehicle at the Outram Road industrial estate in Dukinfield on Friday morning, Greater Manchester Police said. 

He has since been released under investigation.

Hundreds of people took to Facebook to pay tribute to avid DJ John, who is understood to have lived in Tameside. He was a father, the M.E.N. understands.

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