PCA TO SUPERVISE INQUIRY INTO KILBURN DEATH

3 Sep 2003 05:15 PM

Witness appeal

The Police Complaints Authority is to supervise the inquiry into the death of a man in South Kilburn.

Metropolitan Police Service officers went to an address in John Ratcliffe House, Chippenham Gardens, London NW6 at 2.15 pm yesterday to speak with a man. The Metropolitan Police say that they had not entered the address but were in the communal hallway when a man climbed out of and subsequently fell from the seventh-storey window.

The London Ambulance Service and the air ambulance attended. The man who fell, Mr Martin Amber aged 19, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Metropolitan Police Service voluntarily referred the incident for supervision by the PCA. Authority member Mr Leo Pilkington has agreed to the appointment of Detective Chief Inspector Tony Evans of the Metropolitan Police Directorate of Professional Standards as the investigating officer.

Mr Pilkington said: "Anyone who has information on this tragic incident, or can assist the police with the inquiry, should call 020-8785 8168. This will enable us to find out exactly what happened, on behalf of H M Coroner."

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