Talented chef was about to be promoted before tragic Mother's Day crash
20.03.2023 - 23:53
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A talented young Liverpool chef who was tragically killed in a Mother's Day crash has been described as a "joyous character" by his boss who was about to promote him.
25-year-old Oliver Fitchett, known as Ollie, died when his blue Ford Focus was involved in a crash on Speke Boulevard just before midnight on Sunday. He had been travelling back from celebrating Mother's Day and had just dropped family members off before the fatal crash. It is understood his car crashed into the central reservation before a collision with a black Mercedes car, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Ollie, from Old Swan, was a rising star of the culinary world and had been working at prestigious Liverpool restaurant The Art School for two years under the watchful eye of Chef Patron Paul Askew, who today paid tribute to "a massively loved guy with the world at his feet."
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Paul said Ollie was a huge part of The Art School family, adding: "He was such a talented, joyous character. It wasn't just his culinary talent and potential, he was also just an amazing part of the team in terms of his attitude, his humour, his likeability - he was just a lovely, lovely guy."
Paul had been working with Ollie for a "wonderful" Mother's Day shift at the restaurant on Sunday and had been joking with him just hours before the crash that tragically took his life.
He said: "Ollie was sat in the office with me at 8pm last night talking about what we were going to do with the fish garnish and laughing together.
"He had been with us all week and of course yesterday was Mothering Sunday and we had 100 covers of joy and it was a wonderful day, he did a great job and we sat at the end as we do