He was sentenced to a week in jail and probation. Tate pleaded no contest to one felony and three misdemeanor charges in November 2015 after authorities board found 11 bodies in various states of decay at his Toledo funeral home. “He was just doing a service for someone who needed it.” “There was no compensation for him,” Kerger said of Hardin. asked Hardin in 2017 to store the ashes of people whose families had not claimed them. Hardin’s attorney, Richard Kerger, said Thursday that a former funeral director named Robert Tate Jr. He took his bike on the train to Totnes and padlocked it outside the station.Ĭharlotte's statement said that he had been messaging her from 10am and told her he had managed to get into the site.Some of the charges are for alleged criminal violations in Franklin, Summit and Cuyahoga counties, where authorities say Hardin acted as an unlicensed funeral director. They were not able to find a way into the building or on to the roof.Įthan was away and so decided to go by himself on Tuesday July 28, 2020. She said that in July 2020 Meg came to stay for the weekend and she took Charlotte and another friend to the old Dairy Crest site. She also had access to a car which enabled us to explore further than previously," her statement said. ![]() "They were quite secretive but she was able to trade details of sites and knew about lots of places. The inquest heard that in 2020 Charlotte became friends with Meg, a member of the Urban Explorers forum from Cornwall. "He enjoyed taking photographs and videos." "He loved exploring disused buildings and had been in the old Rainbow Fun House and Palace Hotel in Torquay, and the Torbay Berkeley Hotel on the Totnes Road. He loved climbing and was in his element when his parents had scaffolding erected at their house. She said: "He loved the outdoors and we spent a lot of time on walks and picnics. His girlfriend and fellow art student Charlotte Rose met Ethan when they lived at The Foyer in Torquay in 2016. The inquest heard that Ethan, of Beechfield Avenue, Torquay, was an art student who suffered with ADHD and was finding life difficult because of the Covid-19 restrictions in the summer of 2020.Įmergency services at Dairy Crest factory Totnes (Image: Pictures by (C) Roman Alonso) You can stay up to date on the top news near you with DevonLive's FREE newsletters – enter your email address at the top of the page or sign up to our newsletters here Everybody loved Ethan because he was such a likable, positive, outgoing person." "The last thing he sent was this video of him on top of the roof."Įthan was one of four siblings. Also he was an arts student and he would go in and takes videos and use them in his work. "Ethan had ADHD and he liked to do random things. "I want to warn them because I told Ethan not to do it and I told him he was being an idiot, but he always thought he would be ok. I want to tell them 'You don't know what you are walking into'. I just want this message to get out there that these young people just don't realise how dangerous it is in these old buildings. ![]() We are donating the difference to The ADHD Foundation."Īfter his death she appealed on DevonLive to other young urban explorers to take care: "What he did was so dangerous. We are truly overwhelmed and in such a short time. Mrs Reynolds said: "We’ve reached our target and we cannot thank you all enough for your support and messages. Tributes to Ethan flooded in last summer after his mother started a GoFundMe page in his name which raised more than £5,000 within three days of his death. South Devon Coroner Ian Arrow recorded a verdict of death by misadventure and told Ethan's parents: "Ethan was a very content person who clearly loved exploring and I am very sorry to hear of his death in these circumstances." It was more than 24 hours before he was found, still alive, after a major emergency operation.Įthan was flown to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth but died from his injuries the next day. He fell more than 15ft on to a concrete surface. Young urban explorer Ethan Bonnar died when he fell through a skylight at a derelict Devon dairy last summer.Īn inquest today heard that the last thing the 22-year-old Torquay art student did was send a video of himself to his girlfriend from the roof of the Dairy Crest dairy near Totnes railway station.
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