Pupil Max’s seventh floor fall was accident, finds inquest
A Bath schoolboy who fell from the seventh-floor window of an apartment in Spain died by accident, an inquest has found.
Max Mcmullen, 15, from Beechen Cliff School, died after falling from the window while on an exchange trip in the city of Cordoba on October 19, 2019.
Max’s family said in a statement outside Avon Coroner’s Court that he was an “amazingly talented and special person”. They told BBC Points West that they would “never forgive” what happened to him.
The family said: “We will never forgive what happened to Max.
“He had such a bright future ahead of him full of success and happiness that was so cruelly taken from him.
“Max will never be forgotten by everyone who knew him. You just could not forget him, he was one of a kind.”
The two-day inquest heard Max may have been trying to fix a window shutter before he fell. It heard no evidence to suggest he sought to take his own life.
Witnesses said he appeared to be settled and enjoying the trip, despite experiencing some low moods in the past. The court heard how Max was a happy young man who loved sport.
He had reportedly met with friends in a local park the night he died.
He left the group at around 10pm and his body was found on the ground outside the host’s apartment around an hour later.
In a statement read on the first day of the inquest, Max’s mother Karen said his death had left his family with a “hole in the heart”.
She said it had “traumatised” the family.