EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2016 | News We are destroyed, say family of waitress killed by HGV as she cycled Josephine McKenna in Rome, Tragedy: police Miss Ciccioli, who had an Italian boy- Friend and customer Sam Ladjemi saw John Dunne and Peter Walker seal off Lavender friend in London, was working for a her at the South Kensington restaurant Hill in Battersea, chain of Vietnamese restaurants and at the weekend. He said: “She would THE family of the latest cyclist to be where cyclist had recently been promoted. use the bike every day to go to work. killed by an HGV on London’s streets Lucia Ciccioli, “Lucia was happy in her new job,” “She liked the exercise after a hard told today of their heartbreak as they right, was killed said Mr Ciccioli. “She was enthusiastic day. She was warned about cycling in paid tribute to a “beautiful” daughter. by an HGV on about it and when I spoke to her for the London but was quite headstrong. She Victim Lucia Ciccioli, 32, from Italy, Monday last time on Sunday she told me how didn’t always listen to people’s advice was hit on Lavender Hill in Battersea happy she was. but she was very careful and I think she shortly before 8am on Monday. She was “She had told me she should give up always had her head screwed on.” pronounced dead at the scene. the bicycle for a little while, seeing as The branch’s head chef Stefano Mas- The waitress and keen cyclist, who she was always moving around town tromo, 28, said: “She was one of the had been living in London for four and because her new job was seven best people I ever met in my life.” years, is believed to have been travel- miles from home so she had to get there Colleague Chiara Bellingeri, 30, said: ling to a new job when she was killed. by train. I don’t know why she had “I remember her big blue eyes and her Her father Davide said: “We are des- decided to take the bike again.” big smile. She brought the sunshine in troyed. We still can’t comprehend what A cousin told the Standard: “Lucia from outside.” Friend Felipe Luis wrote has happened.” was very beautiful and had a very on Facebook: “The world has lost one His daughter was the seventh person positive character. She made friends of the most beautiful souls ever.” to die cycling in London this year, the easily wherever she went.” The HGV driver, a contractor for con- sixth in a road collision and the second announced plans to hold a vigil at the Loro Piceno in the north-east Marche Friends said she had worked at struction firm British Gypsum, stopped involving an HGV. crash scene at 5.30pm next Monday. region, loved living in London and had Carluccio’s restaurants in Spitalfields, at the scene. Witnesses are asked to Cycle safety campaigners today Mr Ciccioli said his daughter, from been excited about the future. He said Covent Garden and South Kensington. contact police on 020 8543 5157 or 101. TV quiz barrister fined £2,500 for giving bad advice to ‘vigilante’ Tristan Kirk Courts Reporter pitting his general knowledge against ing with intent to cause grievous bodily eventually sentenced to nine years, admitted allegations including failing a panel of contestants. harm and having an offensive weapon, McCarthy launched an appeal attacking to ensure his client understood the A CELEBRITY barrister who stars in TV The 56-year-old, who is with Great after being advised by Wallace that he Wallace personally for his handling of charge he was pleading guilty to. quiz show The Chase has been fined James Street Chambers, was called to “had a good defence” and would only the case. Alan Steinfeld QC, chairing the tribu- £2,500 and reprimanded for failing to the Bar in 1984 and is a criminal law face a maximum of two years in prison Appearing at the Bar Tribunals and nal, handed Wallace a reprimand and properly advise a defendant accused specialist who regularly appears in if he admitted the charges. When he was Adjudication Service yesterday, Wallace a £2,500 fine. of a “vigilante” stabbing. cases at the Old Bailey. Shaun Wallace — known as But last July Wallace was on the “The Dark Destroyer” — is one receiving end of an embarrassing of the ‘chasers’ on the daytime Court of Appeal judgement criti- quiz show presented by come- cising his handling of the case dian Bradley Walsh, regularly of defendant Jamie McCarthy. Fined: Shaun Wallace, known as the McCarthy pleaded “Dark Destroyer” on The Chase guilty to wound- Boss who defrauded refuge faces jail Tristan Kirk it was stripped of its funding. Staff agreed to work for free and the charity A FINANCE manager who ripped off spent some of its financial reserves to the women’s refuge where she worked stay open, until it secured a five-year is facing jail. Big Lottery Fund grant. Ruth Hiscock, 37, siphoned money However, Hiscock was paying herself from Harrow Women’s Centre while money from the charity’s accounts employed as its finance officer between during the crisis. 2013 and April last year. She admitted fraud at Harrow crown The charity, offering a safe haven for court yesterday. Prosecution and women in need, had received a defence barristers will work out the £68,000 Harrow council grant but was extent of the fraud before Hiscock is plunged into crisis in April 2013 when sentenced on November 15..