The partner of a victim of the O2 Brixton Academy crush tragedy says someone needs to be held accountable for the deaths.

Two people died when ticketless fans tried to force their way into a show by Nigerian artist Asake at the venue in south London venue on December 15.

Gaby Hutchinson, from Gravesend, was one of them. They were working as a security dog handler at the event with a three-year-old German shepherd called Coco.

The 23-year-old's partner Phoebie Turley, 25, said there needs to be justice for the victims: "Things like this should never have happened.

"Every action has a reaction and this consequence has come out of people turning up with no tickets or turning up trying to kick through a door.

"For what? What purpose did that serve? Because now you have killed innocent people.”

Mother of two, Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, was the other fatality, while a third victim remains in hospital in a critical condition.

Phoebie, who earlier this week set up a fundraising page for Gaby's family, said: "They did not deserve this. Justice needs to be served and someone needs to be found accountable for what happened.

"Not just for Gaby, but for Rebecca as well.”

On Thursday, Lambeth council suspended the venue's licence and will be carrying out an investigation into the incidents and the two deaths so far.

The couple had been dating for three years after meeting through mutual friends and Phoebe described her partner as "the nicest person I'd ever known".

"Gaby literally would have done anything for anyone at the drop of a hat," she told PA.

"Gaby would have given you the shirt off their back if someone else needed it. Gaby was like that our entire relationship. He did everything for me from the minute we met.”

Phoebie said she became aware that something was wrong when her partner stopped answering her messages.

She said: "The last thing Gabby said to me was, ‘I’ll wake you up when I’m home.’

"I just had a gut feeling the whole time that something wasn’t right.”

She described getting a phone call from the Gaby's manager, saying she needed to get to St Thomas’s Hospital in London.

She said: "I was like: ‘what’s happened?’

“Nobody was really aware of the situation at that point. He’d obviously been given very little information because he wasn’t at the event. And then we all got to St Thomas’s as fast as we could.”

Gaby died four days later in hospital in the early hours of Monday.

Ms Turley said: "I have to keep reminding people, Gaby wasn’t there for the concert.

"They didn’t go to cause trouble. They went there precisely to do their job and keep people safe. And that’s the only thing that gives me comfort is they did save some people that night whether they lost their life or not.

“They saved other people in the process. And their dog.”

Phoebie and a family friend have set up two crowdfunding pages to help pay for funeral costs.

She said: “Obviously, we are only young, so we don’t have loads of money.

"We didn’t have life insurance and things because obviously this was never on our books to happen. Gabs deserves the best send off.”

So far, more than £5,000 has been raised via the page.

'They didn’t go to cause trouble. They went there precisely to do their job and keep people safe.'

“People have been so generous,” Phoebie said. “There was a security firm that really generously donated £1,000. I think this has affected a lot of people in that sector."

Gaby’s employer has allowed their family and Phoebie to keep Coco.

She added: "Gaby’s boss gifted Coco to me and the family to make it a bit easier on us because Coco’s the last thing we’ve got of Gaby now.”