A doting mum who lost her 29-year-old son in the Southall rail disaster has entered a new phase in her crusade to bring rail companies to account.

Commons trip - Maureen Kavanagh is fighting for a change in the law. Picture: ROBIN WOOSEY BFCAP36

Maureen Kavanagh, of Somerset Road, Laindon, says many families who lost loved ones will not see justice until laws on corporate killing are tightened.

Her son Peter was among seven people who died in September 1997 when a Great Western express from Swansea to London ploughed into an empty freight train crossing the tracks at Southall, west London.

This week, four-and-a-half years on, 54-year-old Mrs Kavanagh made the trip to the House of Commons with other families who lost loved ones in rail crashes or industrial accidents to put pressure on the Government.

Now with the backing of Trade Union Congress general secretary John Monks, she is hopeful changes to the law will be made.

Families may have to wait just a matter of weeks before MPs to start moving things forward, according to Mrs Kavanagh.

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Published Friday, March 22, 2002