VIDEOS played to a jury show two incidents where the barrier that killed a 10-year-old boy in Reading’s Topshop store wobbled as it was leaned on.

At the opening of the trial into Topshop, parent company Arcadia and barrier-manufacturers Realm Projects Ltd, Reading Crown Court heard about a number of near-miss incidents involving barriers similar to the one that killed Kaden Reddick on February 13, 2017.

The 10-year-old boy, from Burghfield, who had been hanging on to the barrier, died from a traumatic head injury after it landed on him.

Prosecutor James Ageros QC said: “Other barriers in other Topshop stores across the country were also unstable.”

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This included a barrier in a Topshop store in Manchester.

In 2015, the barrier in this store was not fixed to the ground and subsequently fell over and caused serious injury to a shopper’s foot.

However, no investigation was carried out on the barriers in other stores following this incident, the court heard.

“This ought to have put Arcadia on notice in relation to barriers”, Mr Ageros said.

Disaster struck again on February 7, 2019, when a young girl was left with a fractured skull after a barrier (similar to the one that caused Kaden’s death) toppled over.

The court heard how the Reading Topshop barrier was wobbling in the days before Kaden’s death.

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CCTV footage from four days before Kaden’s passing shows a shopper almost causing the barrier to topple over after leaning on it while queuing at the Reading store.

In another CCTV clip, a man is seen leaning on the barrier with his backside on February 12 -- the day before Kaden died.

As he moves away from the barrier, the fixture wobbles.

Topshop and Topman Ltd, Arcadia Group Ltd, and Realm Projects Ltd are all accused of breaching health and safety responsibilties in relation to the death of Kaden Reddick.

Barristers acting on behalf of all three companies deny the charges.

The trial continued at Reading Crown Court on Monday, January 17 after getting underway on Friday, January 14.