Man plunges to his death from Folkestone nursing home
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Police have launched an investigation after an
elderly man plunged to his death from an upstairs window of a
nursing home.
Paramedics battled to save the
86-year-old but he was pronounced dead at the scene. He
had suffered a heart attack.
It happened at Wells House
Nursing Home in Radnor Cliff Crescent, Folkestone, at 4.20pm on
Sunday.
Both police and health and
safety officials are now investigating.
A spokesman for South East Coast
Ambulance Service said: "We treated a man in his 80s who had a
cardiac arrest outside a home in Radnor Cliff Crescent.
"The man is reported to have
fallen from an upstairs window and suffered a serious head
injury.
"Clinicians tried to resuscitate
the patient at the scene but were unsuccessful."
South Kent Police spokesman Jane
Walker said: "Detectives attended the home and the man’s death is
not being treated as suspicious."
The Health and Safety Executive
confirmed it was investigating with police taking the lead. The
victim has not yet been named.
A spokesman for Wells House
said: "Police are investigating an incident at the nursing home. It
is difficult for us to comment as this is under
investigation."
Staff and management at Wells
House were this week understood to be comforting and liaising with
the victim’s family.
Tuesday, January 24 2012
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