A British holidaymaker died wearing just boxer shorts in an 80ft hotel balcony fall after leaving his room in the middle of the night, an inquest heard.
Software engineer Kieran Hughes, 25, wandered out of his 6th floor room at 4.15am on the sunshine holiday in Malta before accidentally tumbling to his death.
He had downed beer, cocktails and limoncello with a friend before returning to the Cavalieri Art Hotel in the St Julian’s area of the Mediterranean island at 3.30am.
But 48 minutes later he was captured on CCTV falling from the balcony onto the road outside the hotel in July last
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