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Jordan Reynolds

Met Police investigating fatal fall from central London balcony, coroner told

Joshua Robbins - (Fiona Garrett/Facebook)

The death of a man who fell from a flat after balcony railings gave way is being investigated as corporate manslaughter by police, a pre-inquest review heard.

Joshua Robbins, 23, had ordered a takeaway pizza to his flat at Holland and Thurston Dwellings, in Holborn, central London, to share with his father and leant on the railings of his balcony to check on the delivery when they are said to have collapsed on January 29.

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