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Coroner Rules Traumatic Brain Injury in Death After Butlin's Skegness Balcony Fall

Police say the September incident is being treated as non-suspicious, citing a suspected medical episode following the fall.

Overview

  • Bartosz Urbaniak, 29, fell from a third-floor balcony at the adults-only Big Weekender at Butlin's Skegness at about 12:14 p.m. on 28 September.
  • A nurse at the event administered CPR before an air ambulance flew him to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, where he died on 30 September.
  • The Greater Lincolnshire Coroner opened an inquest and recorded the cause as traumatic brain injury with multiple other traumatic injuries from the fall.
  • Lincolnshire Police reported a call for a safety concern and are not treating the death as suspicious, noting a believed medical episode after the fall.
  • Attendees said he may have tried to move between balconies, his partner issued a public tribute after his funeral, and Butlin's did not provide comment.