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Daily Mirror
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Sophie Goodall

Girlfriend watches in horror as boyfriend plunges to death from bridge on Facetime call

A woman watched in horror as her boyfriend accidentally fell to his death from a bridge over the river Thames while they were speaking over video call, the young man's heartbroken family has revealed.

James East, 25, was on a night out in Kingston, London, with girlfriend Arabella Ashfield to celebrate her sister's birthday, when the evening took a tragic turn when he attempted to sit on a walled area of a bridge before falling into the river.

Heartbroken Arabella watched the horror unfold after James, of Swansea, South Wales, had been speaking with her on Facetime.

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