THE family of a woman killed in a lift on a Woodford Green estate are preparing to deliver a petition to the council calling for justice over her death.

Grandmother-of-five Christine Allen, 50, was crushed to death earlier this month after getting caught between an elevator door and wall in the Lambourne Court block of the Orchard Estate.

The day after the tragedy, Christine's family set up the petition amid claims residents had repeatedly warned the council, and its housing management group Redbridge Homes, that the lift was unsafe.

An investigation by the police and the Health and Safety Executive into the disaster is still on-going.

The list of names demanding answers about the death has now filled 12 pages, and daughter Laura Dawkins said she was now getting ready to hand it over.

She said: "It's gone really well. Everyone in the block has been signing it. We haven't counted the names yet but it is hundreds."

Ms Dawkins, who expressed her fears about the general deteriorating state of the Lambourne Court block in an article in the Guardian last year, said she was still coming to terms with her mother's death.

She said: "I'm just so-so at the moment. I'm just keeping busy and trying to keep going."

The council has said it is unable to comment on specifics about the tragedy and that it would be unwise to speculate over exactly what happened.

The funeral of Ms Allen, of Apollo Place in Leytonstone, is yet to be held as her cause of death is still being investigated.