Professional dancer Jonathan Ollivier was killed in a motorbike accident on the morning of his final performance in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man.
The 38-year-old from Northampton was riding the motorcycle through Clerkenwell when he collided with a black Mercedes saloon car at about 11am.
Police, paramedics and an air ambulance crew tried to save his life at the scene but Olliver was pronounced dead an hour later as the driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
Jonathan played the lead Luca in the production, loosely based on Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen and set… Read the full story