Overview
- Authorities identified the deceased as Ben Duncan, a reality TV figure who studied at St Andrews alongside Prince William and Kate Middleton.
- Emergency services were alerted on October 30, with the London Ambulance Service called at 10:59 p.m. and police at 11:02 p.m., and Duncan was pronounced dead at the scene near Trafalgar Square.
- Reports place the fall from the hotel’s seventh-floor rooftop bar, estimated at about 100 feet, at the Trafalgar St. James in Westminster.
- Investigators are reviewing how the fall occurred, with outlets noting tall plastic safety screens around the rooftop area.
- Tributes were posted by broadcaster Mike Hollingsworth and Big Brother winner Josie Gibson, and there has been no public comment from representatives of the Prince and Princess of Wales.