Scots dad dies after freak fall at his own retirement party

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Hibs-mad dad celebrating his final day working with the Scottish courts was killed by a freak fall at his own retirement party.

Frank "Bomber" Crawford, 68, was in a High Street pub with pals when he plummeted down a staircase, suffering catastrophic injuries.It came just hours after he'd been lauded at a ceremony at the city's historic Parliament Hall - which is now part of the Court of Session but was Scotland's original parliament until 1707.It's believed several of Scotland's most senior judges joined the celebration to mark a career spanning more than 30 years.Frank worked as a court superintendent, a managerial administrative role overseeing the smooth running of the courts.He famously worked at the Scottish court in the Netherlands, set up at Camp Zeist between 1999 and 2002, on the Lockerbie bombing case for the trial of two Libyans.There, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of 270 counts of murder in connection with the 1988 bombing, whilst the second accused, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, was acquitted.After the official Friday evening send off for the popular court worker, Frank and a number of friends made the short journey across the Royal Mile to continue celebrating in the Albanach, a traditional Scots pub on the corner of the Royal Mile and Cockburn Street.But Frank, who volunteered extensively with city charity, the Hibs Community Foundation, was later found at the bottom of a staircase suffering severe injuries.

Paramedics treated him on the scene, and he was rushed to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.However, after spending four days in intensive care, Frank succumbed to his injuries, with his official cause of death being recorded as hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, cardiac arrest, fracture of cervical