Selfie taker’s fatal fall from roof of hotel

A MAN plunged 50ft to his death from a hotel roof while trying to get a selfie.

Amir Navaratnam, 22, climbed through a fourthfloor window before slipping in heavy rain and wind, an inquest heard.

He was seen near the bell tower of Manchester’s The Principal hotel before he died last February.

Amir’s brother Bradley, who was working in a ground floor bar, told the city hearing a police officer had tried to get him down.

He said: “It looked as if he was going to climb down but due to the roof line he disappeared and I didn’t see him again.”

The body was found in a canal. Tests showed Amir, of Haslingden, Lancs, had alcohol, cannabis and ketamine in his system.

Verdict: Misadventure. KILL Bill director Quentin Tarantino has defended choking Uma Thurman with a chain and spitting on her.

The 54-year-old wanted to make his movie feel real, saying a technical assistant would be “intimidated” by spitting into Thurman’s face and he did not trust actor Michael Madsen to “nail” it.

And he says the actress asked him to choke her, claiming she said: “I can act all strangle-ey, but if you want my face to get red and the tears to come to my eye, then you kind of need to choke me.”

Tarantino was speaking out after Thurman, 47, told of a car crash during filming after he had directed her to drive, despite her wanting a stunt double.

Uma hurt her legs and came out of hospital in a neck brace. She posted footage of the 2003 accident on Instagram – after Tarantino gave it to her.

They had fallen out over it at the time, but the actress appears to have forgiven him, reserving her venom for Kill Bill producer Harvey Weinstein – who she accuses of an attempted sexual assault.

Thurman raged of an “unforgivable” cover up and Tarantino said: “She feels it’s very possible the car was destroyed, at Weinstein’s insistence.”

Tarantino has no regrets of the spitting and the choking. He said: “I talked to Uma and I said I’ve got to kind of commit to doing this to you. I’ll only do it [spit] twice, at the most, three times.

“But I can’t have you laying here, getting spit on, again and again and again, because somebody else is messing

CHAINED Thurman in Kill Bill CRASH Uma holds her head in the car HELP Tarantino checks on the star FEUD Uma with Quentin & Weinstein

AT WORK Uma and Quentin

SCENE The Principal