Woman trapped in lift gets €25k

A woman who was trapped in a shopping centre lift for just over four and a half minutes has been awarded €25,060 by the High Court.
Woman trapped in lift gets €25k

Marie Dicker, aged 54, a department store supervisor, suffered a direct psychiatric injury as a result of the incident which led to the resurfacing of childhood claustrophobia she had suffered from, Mr Justice Anthony Barr said.

She sued the Square Management Ltd and Pickerings Lifts Ltd over the incident at the Square shopping centre, Tallaght, Dublin, on August 31, 2012.

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