How the tragedy has hit the family:<\/strong><\/p>\nGalvao’s partner Fonseca said: \u201cThey asked me if they could switch off the machine and then explained to me that Miguel could pass instantly or breathe by himself between five to seven days.<\/p>\n
\u201cFive days would have been Christmas day so I told them they could not do that because of the kids but they could do it afterwards. This was on 27 December.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince Miguel passed, I have PTSD \u2013 it has affected everything. Miguel was my everything, he was my rock. When Miguel died, it felt like the floor had been taken from under me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lived together for 15 years and had planned to marry at Christmas 2023. We have three children \u2013 Angelica, Michael and Jose. It has been so difficult for them to cope without their dad.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael screamed \u2018my dad is dead\u2019 when he saw him in hospital, and he still struggles with anger and grief. Angelica was a real daddy\u2019s girl \u2013 she has trouble sleeping and misbehaves because she feels no one cares about what happened to her dad. Jose, our eldest, has tried to be strong, but it has affected him deeply too.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinancially it has also been a real struggle. We relied on Miguel\u2019s wages, and I now find myself on benefits, unable to give the children the life we had before. We don\u2019t have a car anymore, I can\u2019t always afford the heating, and I have to choose which child I can buy something for each month. It is heartbreaking.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiguel\u2019s dream was to buy a house and retire in Portugal. When my father died, he said he would be happy living in my mum\u2019s house there, and that is where we buried him. It is what he would have wanted.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe worked for this company for nearly 10 years, and it hurts that he never came home from work. They came to his funeral but never spoke to me or the children. That lack of respect has been so painful.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiguel was a wonderful father and partner. He went to work that day and never came home. Our lives will never be the same without him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Utilities and infrastructure contractor Lanes Group has been fined \u00a3800,000 following the death of a drainage engineer. City of London Magistrates\u2019 Court heard that in December 2022 Miguel Galvao,51, was priming a jetting hose when there was a loud explosion and the end of the hose whipped up at high speed, striking him. Galvao was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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