Mystery of Brit tourist plunging to his death in 2am Benidorm hotel balcony fall

Lewis Cooper, an amateur shot manager from Basingstoke, died aft falling from his edifice balcony successful Benidorm with his household saying "he had everything to unrecorded for", an inquest heard

A Brit tourer died aft falling from his edifice balcony successful Benidorm with his household saying "he had everything to unrecorded for", an inquest heard.

Amateur shot manager Lewis Cooper suffered the enigma 2am plunge from the 2nd storey aft returning from a nighttime out, a coroner was told. The 28 twelvemonth aged had enactment a seat against the balcony railing and stepped from determination onto the 7 centimetre handrail, according to forensic grounds gathered by Spanish police.

Recording a decease by misadventure, elder Hampshire coroner Christopher Wilkinson said helium could not explicate wherefore Mr Cooper had stepped onto the railing. But helium did regularisation retired suicide, saying determination was 'nothing to indicate' that Mr Cooper from Basingstoke had intended to instrumentality his ain life.

"What can't beryllium explained is however oregon wherefore helium steps connected the chair," Mr Wilkinson said. "There is nary grounds that determination were immoderate difficulties successful his beingness and I fishy that fixed the adjacent friends and household helium had helium would person explained those to others. There is thing that would bespeak that Lewis took his ain life."

The inquest held successful Winchester heard that Mr Cooper had organised a radical vacation to the Spanish edifice for the past 4 oregon 5 years. He had watched the shot and past gone bar-hopping with friends connected the 2nd time of his vacation to Benidorm successful September past year.

At immoderate constituent during the nighttime helium became separated from his friends and helium returned to the edifice with Lucy Quilter whom helium had met astatine the excavation earlier successful the day. Giving grounds astatine the inquest Ms Quilter said she helped Mr Cooper to his country and astatine astir 2am, astir 20 minutes aft she near Mr Cooper's room, her relative heard a sound which turned retired to beryllium Mr Cooper's fall.

A chap holidaymaker, with archetypal assistance grooming from a lifeguarding course, managed to revive Mr Cooper astatine the country earlier the paramedics arrived and tried to reassure him that helium would beryllium good Mr Cooper was taken to Alicante General Hospital wherever helium was pronounced dormant astatine 9:45 successful the greeting connected September 22, 2023, owed to injuries from the fall.

A toxicology study recovered amphetamine, morphine and benzodiazepine successful Mr Cooper's urine but Mr Wilkinson said helium could not found however they had got determination and that the morphine and diazepam whitethorn person been fixed aft his fall. Mr Wilkinson work retired a connection from Mr Cooper's parents, they said helium had 'everything to unrecorded for' including being the champion antheral astatine an upcoming wedding.

They said: "Lewis had a large relationship group, each of his friends person said Lewis was the glue that held them together. He had everything to unrecorded for, helium had started to constitute his champion antheral code and was owed to commencement a 2nd shot coaching course. As his parents each of america knew however astonishing helium was."

Giving his conclusion, Mr Wilkinson said: "I americium frustrated that I can't supply wide grounds and explicate what happened that evening. It is wholly against the atom of who helium was and this makes it adjacent harder to reconcile. Sadly, we volition ne'er cognize precisely what Lewis was thinking. He did thing desperately unsafe which resulted successful his decease but that does not alteration the idiosyncratic you knew. I would similar to widen my precise sincere condolences, Lewis is idiosyncratic you should beryllium rightly arrogant of."