{"id":366751,"date":"2026-01-12T21:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366751\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:33:13","slug":"tributes-to-father-of-six-who-died-in-demolition-site-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/366751\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes to father-of-six who died in demolition site incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Euan Caskie, a director of the company, said:  &#8220;This is a deeply tragic incident, and our thoughts are with his partner, his six children, and his wider family at this incredibly difficult time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was a respected and valued member of our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An online crowdfunder to help with funeral costs for the family has been set up by Ardeer Thistle FC Youth Academy, the club one of his children plays for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club described him as a loving husband and fantastic dad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They stated: &#8220;Derek worked hard for his family and any donations would be greatly appreciated to help support his family at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A large-scale emergency response, including police officers, fire crews and specialist ambulance teams, had attended the scene at about 09:15 on Friday, while a cordon was put in place around the part-demolished building and an excavator machine, sitting on top of a pile of rubble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Police Scotland spokesperson previously said: &#8220;An investigation into the circumstances remains ongoing and the Health and Safety Executive have been informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Euan Caskie, a director of the company, said: &#8220;This is a deeply tragic incident, and our thoughts are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-366751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}