Safety bid at Spanish death fall building
A wall with iron bars on top has been built at a block of flats in Magaluf where a Scots teenager fell to her death in April.
The wal l, around the parking area of the complex, is to deter tourists from entering the building, which is not a holiday property.
Bar worker Natal ie Cormack, 19, of West Kilbride, Ayrshire, found she had not got her keys to her flat at the Eden Roc apartments and fell when she was trying to reach her window on the seventh floor.
Two other young victims, Tom Hughes, 20, f rom Wrexham and Thomas Channon, 20, from Rhoose, south Wales, entered alone at night and fell to their deaths in early June and midway through July.
As well as the wall, a palm tree and shrubbery on part of the block have been cut back.
It has not been made known whether Calvia counci l , by which the resort on Majorca’s south coast is administered, or the residents’ community is paying for the improvements at Eden Roc.
But one resident told local media that the wall made the complex look like a prison.
At the time of Natalie’s death, Courtney Cameron, who also went out to Magaluf with the Scot, warned about the dangers of jumping balconies.
She said: “I cannot stress to people enough to please not jump any balconies. This should be a massive wake up call.”