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Coroner Rules Balcony Fall at Butlin’s Skegness Big Weekender Caused 29-Year-Old’s Death

Police are not treating the September incident as suspicious following the coroner’s finding.

Overview

  • Bartosz Urbaniak fell from a third-floor balcony at the Skegness resort at about 12:15 p.m. on September 28 during the adults-only event.
  • An inquest recorded a traumatic brain injury and multiple other injuries from the fall as the cause, and he died at Queen’s Medical Centre on September 30.
  • Witnesses reported he attempted to move between balconies and lost his footing, according to accounts cited in media and social posts.
  • A trainee nurse and members of the public performed CPR until an air ambulance arrived and transported him to hospital.
  • Lincolnshire Police said they were called for a concern for safety at 12:14 p.m., are treating the case as non-suspicious, and believe he may have suffered a medical episode; family tributes have been shared and Butlin’s has not commented.