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Update: 8:43am – The agonising moments leading up to Kirsty Maxwell’s tragic plunge from a ten-storey Benidorm tower block described in a Spanish police report can yesterday be revealed by MailOnline.

The 27-year-old is thought to have clambered over a balcony and fallen to her death when she walked into the wrong apartment after a night out on the town.

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One of the men in the apartment told police he heard a friend shout: ‘There’s a girl in the bathroom’ and ‘Leave this room’ before adding a few moments later: ‘F***, she has jumped.’

Mrs Maxwell – still wearing her pink hen t-shirt – was subsequently found next the apartment block’s swimming pool, with a white bracelet saying ‘bridesmaid’ lying close by.

 The agonising moments leading up to Kirsty Maxwell’s tragic plunge from a ten-storey Benidorm tower block can today be revealed. Pictured: Kirsty with husband Adam Maxwell
Kirsty, pictured with husban Adam, 27, is thought to have clambered over a balcony and fallen to her death after walking into the wrong apartment following a night out

The harrowing details emerged in a 39-page police report compiled shortly after her death in the Costa Blanca resort in March.

Police believe the amount of alcohol consumed by Mrs Maxwell was a significant element of her death.

The report was compiled by police for investigating judge Ana Isable Garcia-Galbis who is probing the mystery death in the holiday resort.

Cocaine was found in the apartment where five British men were staying in the apartment when Mrs Maxwell fell.

One of them Joseph Graham, 32, was quizzed by police in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy while the other four flew to Benidorm this week for a court hearing.

Ricky Gammon, 31, Anthony Holehouse, 34, Callum Northridge, 27, and Daniel Bailey, 32, all from the Nottingham area, were questioned at Benidorm’s Palace of Justice and await to hear if they face any further legal action.

In the police report, Mr Bailey, who told police he didn’t take cocaine but admitted some of his friends had, said he heard Mr Graham shout out that Mrs Maxwell was in the apartment and had jumped.

           

A lawyer for the Maxwell family has claimed the hen party reveller was in a ‘state of terror ‘ and felt she had no choice but to jump after she had drunkenly entered the flat.

Luis Miguel Zumaquero compared her situation to that of a person trapped in a burning building with no choice but to leap into the ‘abyss’.

He used the report to relay to the judge the police’s own conclusions that Mrs Maxwell panicked after finding herself in an apartment with five male strangers inside.

The report details the investigations carried out by police into drug-taking in the apartment.

According to the report, police only found out that Mr Graham had taken cocaine when they took him hospital after noticing he had suffered a nose bleed.

Detectives thought he might have sustained the nosebleed during a struggle with Mrs Maxwell.

But on examination a doctor discovered his nasal cavities were ‘red raw’ because of the ‘large amount’ of cocaine he had consumed before Mrs Maxwell walked in.

       

A forensic team found a Marlborough Gold cigarette like the ones smoked by Graham on the floor next to the sliding door leading to the Juliet balcony where she fell.

Mr Graham’s defence lawyer Roberto Sanchez told Mail Online: ‘No-one is disputing the fact Joseph Graham took cocaine or had been drinking before Kirsty Maxwell walked into that apartment.

‘The fact a cigarette of the type he smokes was by the balcony she went over doesn’t incriminate him in any way.

‘He could have been about to smoke it by the window when she walked through the door unexpectedly.’

The report revealed Mr Graham, a £49,000 a year worker with Amazon, opened the door to Mrs Maxwell who had walked up a flight of stairs from her flat below. Police believe she was looking for her friends sleeping on the 10th floor.

The report, written in Spanish but translated by Mail Online, says: ‘We believe she left her apartment 9A dressed but barefoot with the intention of entering the apartment of a female friend to ask her for medicine because she felt unwell, or simply to see one of her female friends.’

Mystery: A friend photographed Kirsty, pictured with Adam, lying full clothed on her bed, but around 8am she woke up and walked up a flight of stairs to the apartment directly above

Hotel plunge: Kirsty, who married Adam only last September, fell 100ft to her death from the hotel Balcony in Benidorm, Spain. Pictured: The balcony in the room where she was staying

Tragic fall: Kirsty, from Livingston, West Lothian, died instantly after plunging from a tenth-floor flat in the Costa Blanca resort. Pictured: The swimming pool below where she fell

Drafted by Benidorm National Police’s Specialised and Violent Crime UDEV force, it concludes: ‘The swimming pool is just below the balcony.

‘She could have thought that if she jumped she would fall into the water, given that from height it appears that the swimming pool is just below the balcony.’

The report makes it clear that police think alcohol played a contributing factor in Mrs Maxwell’s death plunge.

It details how she and her friends wore matching pink tops with the message: ‘SO WE’RE GETTING DRUNK’ on them and reveals she left the hen do celebrations and reached her holiday apartment block at 4.35am on April 29 because she felt unwell after 10 strong spirit-based drinks.

The terrible scene that met police when they discovered Mrs Maxwell dead by the pool of the Apartmentos Playa is graphically described in the report, detailing how she was wearing the same pink top, a missing button from her skirt was in the pool along with her watch which had sunk to the bottom of the water.

Toxicology tests showed Mrs Maxwell, from Kingston, West Lothian, had a blood alcohol concentration of 2.79 grams per litre, putting her more than five and a half times over the Spanish drink-drive limit.

All four have protested their innocence and previously told their lawyer they had no idea why Maxwell, who was five times over the Spanish drink drive limit, entered their flat at a £60 a night apartment block in the centre of Benidorm

It found she had not taken any drugs and her husband has insisted she was not suicidal.

Mr Graham was allowed back to Britain without charge after his court appearance on May 1 and has protested his innocence.

He said shortly after his release from custody: ‘I am unable to say anything at this time other than I am innocent of any wrongdoing.’

The judge investigating Mrs Maxwell’s death said there was no new evidence that the five men were involved in her death while admitting she could have been in a ‘panic’ at finding herself in the men’s apartment.

The judge also said no one had heard any screams from Mrs Maxwell and she had no defence injuries on her body or injuries that could have been caused by anything other than her fall.

 -Daily Mail
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