Electrician killed by moving lift named

Police have named the South Auckland electrician killed yesterday when the lift he was working on accidentally began moving and caught him between floors.

Kenneth James Stephen, 50, from Manurewa, was installing the lift in a newly built apartment block on Shelly Beach Rd in Herne Bay when the lift carriage began moving without warning.

Police said today that Mr Stephen could not get out of the way as the lift began moving up and was caught between the lift and the building structure.

His workmate, a lift engineer, alerted the ambulance service, but Mr Stephen died instantly.