Four persons were killed on Monday by St Jude, one of the worst storms to hit Britain in years that also left 600,000 homes without power, paralysed rail traffic and grounded 130 flights.
A teenager in Kent and a man in Watford, north of london, were killed by falling trees, while a man and a woman died in west london after another falling tree caused a suspected gas explosion and house collapse. A teenage boy was reported missing after the storm caused travel chaos and left nearly 130 flights grounded at Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport. Bethany Freeman, 17, suffered fatal injuries when a tree came down where she was sleeping in a mobile home in Kent, south-east England, this morning. Police confirmed that the death was weather-related and is not being treated as suspicious.