British woman was on a hen do when she died in Benidorm

British woman was on a hen do when she died in Benidorm



The British woman who died after plunging from the tenth floor of a block of holiday flats in Benidorm was on a hen do, it emerged on Sunday.

The 27-year-old woman had travelled to the Costa Blanca resort with a group of around 35 female friends, local authorities said.

They returned to the Apartamentos Payma block in Little England at around 4am on Saturday, around four hours before the tragedy.

It was initially understood police were treating the incident as a drunken accident.



Police now suspect the unnamed woman may have taken her own life after interviewing her friends and other tourists staying in the block, according to local reports.

Spanish TV station Antena 3, citing local sources, said the Brit had left her room on the eighth floor and got into a room on the tenth floor before smoking a cigarette on the balcony and plunging to her death.

The broadcaster said she was believed to have consumed drugs as well as alcohol.

She died instantly after landing on a paved area near the swimming pool of the two-star apartment block, called the Apartamentos Payma.

There was no immediate police comment on the claims that it could be a suicide on Sunday.

Speaking of the latest incident on Saturday, a police spokesman said: 'All we can say at this stage is that a British woman born in 1989 has fallen from a tenth-floor flat in Benidorm and died as a result.

'The matter is under investigation. It appears she was with other people at the time.'

He was not able to say where in the UK the woman was from.

The two-star apartments where she died are just a short distance from the beach and offer holiday accommodation and are geared towards British visitors.

Michael Harvey, 27, who owns a bar across from the building, told MailOnline: 'It's a very safe and popular building.



'Nothing like this has happened before so it's a bit of a shock really, it's a bit of a shame.

'There is a lot of partying going on but at the end of the day it's Spain and you've got all day to enjoy yourselves.

'Some of the clubs don't close until seven or eight in the morning and it's a very popular destination for the younger crowd so you're going to see more and more drinking.

'We had an event last night in the club next door and I left there at 5am this morning.

'The door that I use into the club is literally 10-15 steps away from the entrance to the apartments so if anything peculiar was going on I would have seen it or heard it.

'I think it's just been a terrible, terrible mishap and some poor girl's obviously lost her life and I really do feel sorry for her.'

Last November supermarket worker Danielle Hall, 21, from Newcastle, plunged to her death in the resort after losing her balance on her ninth-floor hotel balcony.

She had travelled to Benidorm to take part in Benidorm's festivities with her boyfriend Jordan Bevan, 23, and his gran.

Danielle's family said in a statement afterwards: 'Danielle was an outgoing and friendly girl who will be greatly missed by all her family and friends.

'She loved children and animals, especially horses and dogs. She enjoyed helping on the family farm, especially at lambing time.'