Family of British woman who fell to her death in Spain call on Met to investigate

Piia Hokkanen, who died on 4 September after a fall from an apartment in Torrevieja, Spain. Photograph: Handout

The family and friends of a British IT executive who fell to her death from an apartment block in Spain on the evening of her 50th birthday have called on the Metropolitan police to intervene in a Spanish police investigation into the fatality.

Piia Hokkanen, who at the time of her death had borrowed her sister’s holiday home for a three-day mini-break in Torrevieja, near Alicante, was found lifeless after falling from a communal window on to a neighbour’s patio shortly after midnight on 4 September.