Christchurch earthquake CTV building survivor: We've had to fight

Maryanne Jackson and Peter Brown are still fighting, alongside many other families, for someone to be held accountable for the deaths of their colleagues and friends and the 99 other people who perished when Christchurch's CTV building building collapsed more than six years ago. Geoff Sloan and Ashleigh Monk, of star.kiwi, report.

Maryanne Jackson was the only one of her CTV colleagues who made it out of the building alive after the devastating February 22, 2011, earthquake.

Maryanne fled from the ground floor reception desk as soon as she felt the shaking start, narrowly escaping the collapse of the building.

Sixteen of her colleagues lost their lives in the CTV building, along with 99 others who were in the building at the time.

She and Peter Brown, who retired from his job at CTV two months before the quake, say it is hard coming back to where they lost their friends.

They say they've had to fight to get things moving.

Maryanne and Peter are frustrated no-one has been held accountable for the collapse of the building.

The four-year criminal investigation into the incident is in its final stages, police say, with a decision on whether charges will be laid expected within weeks.

In 2012, the royal commission of inquiry found serious errors by engineers, structural designers and the Christchurch City Council.

But Maryanne and Peter say it is hard for them to move on until they know if anyone will be held accountable for the deaths of their colleagues and friends.

However, they say it is important the job is done properly.

Investigators have interviewed more than 100 witnesses and raided the offices of Engenium Consulting Engineers, formerly Alan Reay Consultants, which designed the Madras St office block in the mid-1980s.

Maryanne and Peter say they fear the investigation will end in a similar way to the Pike River Mine tragedy, in which 29 men lost their lives.

- star.kiwi