Executive dies after 500ft fall from roof of his bank’s HQ
AN EXECUTIVE plunged to his death at the London headquarters of investment bank JP Morgan yesterday morning.
Gabriel Magee, 39, fell at least 500ft from the roof of the 33-floor building in Canary Wharf on to an adjacent block just after 8am.
His body was left in full view of City workers in surrounding buildings for up to four hours as police investigated the death.
Mr Magee, who joined JP Morgan in 2004 and lived in North London, was an expert in highly specialist software which reaps huge profits for the US company by predicting market patterns.
The American was highly respected and had been promoted to vice-president in the corporate and investment bank’s technology department.
It is understood that Mr Magee’s girlfriend had reported him missing the previous evening.
Senior colleagues were last night investigating Mr Magee’s recent workload as rumours swirled around the City over what may have prompted his death.
Last night a colleague said: ‘They’re going to be going through his stuff to try to find out if he’d made some kind of terrible error. It’s possible he had been in the office all night trying to put it right before the fall.’
A Met Police spokesman said that the incident was not being treated as suspicious.