A 50-YEAR-old woman has died after becoming trapped in a lift shaft.

Fire crews were called to the scene at 12:07 last night (August 9) where they discovered the woman caught between the lift and the outer door at a block of flats in Lambourne Court on the Orchard Estate in Woodford Green.

Crews from Woodford, Chingford and Edmonton tried for nearly an hour to release the woman but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Health and Safety Executive has been notified and is conducting preliminary inquiries but police are not treating the incident as suspicious.

A spokesman for the Metropolitain Police said: “The next of kin have been informed. We await formal identification and a post mortem examination will be held in due course.”