A former Royal Marine was killed in a horror accident after being struck on the head while cutting down a 120ft tree, a sheriff has ruled.
Christopher Moses, 37, was working as a tree surgeon in the village of Rhu near Helensburgh, West Dunbartonshire.The upper part of a tree he was working on separated from the lower half and fell in the opposite direction.
Moses, a maths teacher, had been working at 30ft when he was struck on the head and briefly trapped between sections of the falling tree.He was left hanging unconscious from a harness with blood pouring 'profusely' from his head.
Two colleagues, James Fanning and Christopher Smith, said they heard a loud 'crack' moments before the fatal incident.Emergency services raced to the scene but Moses, who qualified as a tree surgeon in 2013, could not be saved.
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