David Jones

David Jones died during violence on a picket line at Ollerton Colliery.

He died in hospital after collapsing near a picket line at the colliery. He collapsed a few hundred yards from the colliery gates where he had been picketing. When he was initially found the police initially said that they believed he had had a heart attack and that his death had nothing to do with the violence. However, other picketing miners said they didn't accept that, with some miners stating they saw a brick thrown at him.