Teacher ‘was warned of wobbly wall at school’

Friends of Keane Wallis-bennett told a teacher that a wall in a high school in Edinburgh would “shake and wobble” before it collapsed, killing the 12-year-old, a Fatal Accident Inquiry has heard.

One of the girls contacted Keane’s mother, Abbie Wallis, this week after reading that teachers had denied being alerted to the wall.

Giving evidence at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, PE teacher Nicole Christie repeatedly denied being warned.

Keane died on 1 April, 2014, when a two-metre high, freestanding “modesty” wall collapsed in the girls’ changing room of Liberton High School’s old PE department.

“I started to notice the wall shaking,” said the 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in a police statement read to the inquiry.