Graham Fletcher-Cook's widow is fighting the BBC for £800,000 compensation, claiming he was poisoned by asbestos dust while filming BBC shows as a child.
Graham, whose the older brother Dexter Fletcher directed Rocketman, had roles as a child in many big films including Bugsy Malone, Sid and Nancy, Cry Freedom and The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
He sadly died in May 2019, aged 55, after developing the asbestos-related lung cancer mesothelioma. The star was diagnosed with mesothelioma in February 2018 and died just 15 months later.
And his widow, Jeanette Monero, who is a film SFX artist, is suing the BBC for £800,000 damages, claiming her husband was exposed to hazardous asbestos fibres while working on BBC show sets, at Television Centre,
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