Inquest opens into rooftop bar fall death
BBCAn inquest has opened into the death of a man who fell several floors from a rooftop bar in Birmingham city centre.
Richard Ayling, 40, died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on 4 May after the incident at Herman and Cooper on Colmore Row the previous day.
Opening the inquest at Birmingham Coroner's Court, the coroner Adam Hodson said Mr Ayling appeared to have fallen several levels from the venue's rooftop bar to the ground floor. He said the death appeared to be "violent and unnatural".
The inquest was adjourned until 10 August.
The court heard Mr Ayling, a maintenance engineer originally born in Germany, lived in Priory Close, Newhall, near Swadlincote in Derbyshire, with his wife Amy.
His family were with him when he died in hospital, the hearing was told.
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