Overview
- Metropolitan Police say officers responded at 11:02 p.m. on Oct. 30 to reports of a man on the roof of a Cockspur Street building before the man fell and was pronounced dead at the scene.
- London Ambulance Service reports a 10:59 p.m. call to nearby Spring Gardens and a major response including an ambulance crew, incident officer, fast-response paramedics, HART personnel, and a trauma team.
- Reports identify the location as the seventh-floor rooftop bar of the Trafalgar St. James Hotel, with several outlets noting high plastic safety screens around the perimeter.
- The deceased has been named in multiple outlets as Ben Duncan, 45, known from Big Brother and other UK shows, with friends posting tributes on social media.
- Duncan studied at St Andrews during the early years of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s relationship, though outlets differ on the closeness of those ties, and neither has issued a public statement.