Drink Caused Lovers To Fall 60ft To Their Deaths While Kissing On Balcony

Two students who fell to their deaths from a sixth-floor balcony had been drinking, one of them heavily, when they decided to sit on the ledge, an inquest heard.

Anastasia Tutik, 19, and Miguel Ramos, 18, were entwined when they lost their balance and dropped 60ft from the balcony at the block of flats in Deptford, southeast London, in June.

Mr Ramos, from Mexico, had 393 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood and MsTutik, from Russia, had 85. The UK drink drive limit is 80 microgram.

The pair had met earlier that evening at a friend’s party in the flat, which has views of the Thames and Canary Wharf.

They had been drinking before they went outside together. Tutik was seen sitting on the railing in the moments before they fell.

She came to the UK from Russia in September last year and was studying her A-levels at Bellerbys College.

His father, Miguel Lozano Munguia, is a former mayor of the town of Pesquería in Mexico and was once head of the centre-left Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) in the state of Nueva León.

The coroner, Dr Andrew Harris, described their deaths as a tragic accident during the inquest at Southwark coroner’s court.

“There is nothing from any witness statement that indicates they intended to take their lives,” he said. “They were happy students celebrating the end of term and about to go home.”

“They did not know each other well and it does not seem likely that any speculation as to them ending their lives could hold any water at all, and I discount that.”

The coroner added: “They were at a party [and] were engaging in intimacy on a balcony when they accidentally fell to the ground.

“Both had been drinking and were intoxicated when they made the decision to sit on the railing.”

Harris said his thoughts were with the families of both teenagers.

Both Tutik and Ramos died from multiple injuries.

Harris recorded a verdict of accidental death in which alcohol was a contributing factor.