I was flying into LCY that morning at approx 0930.
Cloud tops at about 1200ft, beautiful blue sky above. Thick dense cloud / fog reported at 1200m vis with a reported overcast at 200ft... we performed a missed approach as no visual cues on 09 at LCY. We held for a bit and had another go and got in with an improvement as the morning developed.
We couldn't see a set of high intensity runway lights on our first approach at minima... this crane lighting argument is superfluous as one light or a set of lights wouldn't have been enough in those conditions I witnessed first hand (as low flying a/c would be flying illegally).
This incident is a case of a bad decision, bad judgement and from my interpretation of the rules, highly illegal.
No single individual is greater than the rules that are in place to protect the public.. the rules didn't fail us on this occasion, the individual did.