A FATHER-OF-TWO has been electrocuted while trying to fix the family washing machine.
Rab Taylor, 40, died after making what his wife Pauline described as a ‘silly mistake’.
She said: ‘He was fixing the washing machine and made a silly mistake he forgot to switch it off. He put his hand inside andwas electrocuted.” The tragic accident happened on Friday night.
Pauline added: ‘I’m shellshocked, stunned. It hasn’t really sunk in yet.
‘It all happened so fast that I don’t have a clue what happened. All I remember was dialling 999.’
Rab lived with his wife and their daughters Amanda, 17, and Stephanie, 13, in a flat in Graham Place, Dundee.
He worked as a barman at the nearby Harlequin pub.
Landlady Elizabeth Murphy described him as: ‘Highly respected and very popular, both behind the bar andon the other side of it. It has been like losing a member of the family.
‘He had a dry sense of humour, very droll, and some of his one-liners would have you bent over double. The reaction to his death has been shock.
‘People are coming in and finding out about it, having a drink then needing to go home again.
‘What I have noticed is that every age group, from 18 to 80,has been stunned by it.’
Rab, who was born and raised in Dundee, worked for DIY firm B&Q for 13 years before starting work at the pubtwo years ago.
A Tayside police spokesman said that a report is submitted to the procurator fiscal as a matter of routine in all cases of sudden or unexplained death.
From The Glasgow Daily Record
Also thanks to Bill Ellis for sending us a scan of the original article from the local newspaper.
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