Man dies after falling from flat window

Emergency services were called to the flat in Stockwell Court in Sussex Road at 1.40pm today (January 3).

Police said the man was believed to be in his early thirties and was reported to have fallen from the window of a flat onto the pavement at the junction with Gower Road.

A spokesman from Sussex Police said: “The man was attended to by ambulance crew but sadly he died at the scene shortly afterwards. At this stage the incident is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious.”

A spokesman from South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) confirmed an air ambulance attended the scene in an attempt to save the man, however he was found in a ‘fatal’ condition.

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