‘Game’ fatal for diplomat

AN AUSTRALIAN diplomat who had angered a woman’s husband and then sought to prove himself with a risky game of trust on a seventhfloor terrace near the Empire State Building fell to his death.

The diplomat, Julian Simpson, was on the roof with others and had swung a woman around, angering her husband.

Mr Simpson offered to prove he was trustworthy by playing a trust game, going to a ledge and leaning back.

He grabbed for the other man’s hand but slipped and fell to a second-floor landing.