Marcus Anthony Allen · Prevention of Future Deaths report

On 2nd June 2017 I commenced an investigation into the death of Marcus Anthony Allen, aged 32. The investigation concluded at the end of the Inquest on 8th May 2018. The conclusion of the Inquest was a Narrative Conclusion that he sustained fatal head injuries when he fell from a window at his home at 34 Whingate Mills Flats, Armley, Leeds on 1st June 2017.

On 1st June 2017 at approximately 2215 hours neighbours heard a noise and on looking out of their windows saw the motionless body of a man lying beneath the open window of ████████ The Emergency Services attended and pronounced the man, later identified as Marcus Anthony Allen, dead at 2255 hours on 1st June 2017 at the car park of Whingate Mills Flats, Armley, Leeds.

Mr Allen was known to use the drug, Ketamine. Toxicology analysis revealed he had consumed Ketamine at a level known to cause confusion, loss of coordination, psychological disassociation and hallucinations.

A Police investigation concluded that Mr Allen had fallen from the lounge window of his flat on the second floor. No devices restricting the opening of the large window were fitted. The circumstances in which he came to fall are unclear as is his intention at that time.

(1) The large window in the lounge of flat ████████ has no restrictor device fitted. In consequence it can open to a position which necessitated a person leaning out of the window in order to close it. This was considered by witnesses to create a hazard involving a risk that a person may fall when attempting to close the window. It may be that other windows in the flat complex also have the same potential hazard.