Student dies after fall from 10th storey of luxury Shoreditch halls

A student has died after plunging from the 10th storey of a luxury halls in east London.

The woman, a student in her 20s, was critically injured in the fall from the top of the Paul Street East flats in Shoreditch at about 2pm on Thursday last week.

She landed on the roof of an adjacent two-storey building where medics battled to save her life for about an hour.

Witnesses described seeing frantic office workers rush over, before emergency workers arrived and cut off her clothes while trying to revive her on the terrace.

Police confirmed late on Tuesday that she had died in hospital on Friday, a day after the fall.

Kozan Baltasli, a security officer at a nearby building, told the Standard he could see the “horrible” scene from an overlooking window.

"We could see a lot of firemen, police and ambulance crews,” he said.

"After a while they moved her body and started cutting her clothes off and they were trying to revive her for quite some time.

"The police said it was a young lady. It's horrible. You don't want to see anything like that."

It is believed she fell from the building’s 10th-storey balcony.

Account manager Kat Skeldon, 36, said her colleague witnessed the fall from a nearby office.

"It was literally a split second of seeing the shape and then realising it was a person," she told the Standard on Thursday.

“Office workers from the building rushed out and within about 10 minutes the emergency services arrived."

Ms Skeldon then saw medics treating the woman "for about an hour".

The Met said it was not investigating the woman’s death because it was not suspicious.

Fellow students at the block in Paul Street have been offered counselling by the owners of the upmarket halls.

When approached by the Standard the student accommodation company declined to comment.