Second Briton dies in Spanish balcony fall

A second British tourist has died in less than a week in Spain in a hotel balcony fall.

Samuel Peter Hill, 22, was killed almost instantly after falling on his head from a hostel in the Majorcan party resort of Magaluf.

The freak accident happened around 3.30 yesterday morning/on Wednesday morning at the Villasol Hostel, recommended as a holiday hotel for youngsters because it is close to the Punta Balllena strip where most of the resort’s nightclubs and bars are.

The youngster, thought to be from Beckford, Worcestershire, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Local reports said he had died despite falling just over six feet onto a grass lawn outside the hostel.

Two other British holidaymakers, one a Met Police officer, reportedly discovered him lying on the ground with blood seeping out of his ears and nose and alerted hotel staff after he failed to respond to their efforts to revive him.

A judge has now been put in charge of an investigation into the tragedy.

A Foreign Office spokesman said today: “We are aware of the death of a British national on Sep 11 in Magaluf.

“We are providing consular assistance.”

Alan Clare, 34, from Warrington, Cheshire, plunged to his death from a fifth-floor hotel balcony in Benidorm in the early hours of last Friday morning shortly after jetting into the Costa Blanca resort for a stag do.