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| A store has been criticised by a father for having its car park swing barrier fixed in place with a piece of wood. | A store has been criticised by a father for having its car park swing barrier fixed in place with a piece of wood. |
| Keith Mills was with his two-year-old son when he returned to his car at the Aldi store in Ebbw Vale to find the barrier had swung over the windscreen. | Keith Mills was with his two-year-old son when he returned to his car at the Aldi store in Ebbw Vale to find the barrier had swung over the windscreen. |
| Last week supermarket giant Asda was fined £225,000 for health and safety breaches after a Cardiff customer was killed by an unsecured swing barrier. | |
| Aldi has been asked to comment but no-one has been available. | Aldi has been asked to comment but no-one has been available. |
| Mr Mills, 32, said he parked alongside the barrier on Saturday on a trip out with his toddler son Tomos-Lloyd. | Mr Mills, 32, said he parked alongside the barrier on Saturday on a trip out with his toddler son Tomos-Lloyd. |
| When the pair returned, the barrier had been moved or had blown over the front of his Fiat Bravo car, denting the bodywork, he told the BBC. | When the pair returned, the barrier had been moved or had blown over the front of his Fiat Bravo car, denting the bodywork, he told the BBC. |
| He said: "If I had parked at a different angle, it would have hit the window. | He said: "If I had parked at a different angle, it would have hit the window. |
| "That could have come through the back window and that's where my baby car seat is." | "That could have come through the back window and that's where my baby car seat is." |
| The barrier fixed in place with a piece of wood at the Aldi store | The barrier fixed in place with a piece of wood at the Aldi store |
| Mr Mills said he remembered reading about the court case in which Asda was fined over the death of Kenneth Farr at its Cardiff store. | Mr Mills said he remembered reading about the court case in which Asda was fined over the death of Kenneth Farr at its Cardiff store. |
| Mr Farr, 37, of Penarth, died in May 2002, after an unsecured barrier smashed through his car windscreen at the Asda store in Cardiff Bay. | Mr Farr, 37, of Penarth, died in May 2002, after an unsecured barrier smashed through his car windscreen at the Asda store in Cardiff Bay. |
| Newport Crown Court heard the two-week inquest into his death was told the barrier, which was difficult to close, should have been locked in place with a padlock, but was not secured on the day Mr Farr died. | Newport Crown Court heard the two-week inquest into his death was told the barrier, which was difficult to close, should have been locked in place with a padlock, but was not secured on the day Mr Farr died. |
| Mr Mills said: "If that could happened there, it could happen elsewhere. Every store should have checked its barrier." | Mr Mills said: "If that could happened there, it could happen elsewhere. Every store should have checked its barrier." |
| He said after moving the barrier off his car and back in to place, he found a strip of plastic cord on the ground under the barrier and used that to tie it in place. | He said after moving the barrier off his car and back in to place, he found a strip of plastic cord on the ground under the barrier and used that to tie it in place. |
| Photographs | Photographs |
| "It did cross my mind to go in to Aldi and complain but my son was crying so I just re-attached the plastic cord and went home," he added. | |
| He said he returned the following day and found the cord had been replaced by what he described as "twig". | He said he returned the following day and found the cord had been replaced by what he described as "twig". |
| He said: "I can't imagine kids putting a twig in there." | He said: "I can't imagine kids putting a twig in there." |
| Blaenau Gwent Council is making inquiries after being sent photographs of the barrier by BBC Wales. | Blaenau Gwent Council is making inquiries after being sent photographs of the barrier by BBC Wales. |