Family hope for ‘truth at last’ over teenager who died in Majorca hotel fall

Mystery: Tom Ousby, 19, was spotted running away from someone before his body was found
Matt Watts19 August 2015

The family of a teenage musician who fell to his death from the ninth floor of a hotel in Magaluf today said: “We just want to get to the truth.”

Tom Ousby, 19, from Uxbridge, died after plummeting 60ft from a fire escape during a three-month stay in the Majorca resort in August 2013.

As an inquest into his death was due to open today his father John, 51, told the Standard: “We have been waiting two years for answers. ”

Tom, a former model who was hoping to join a band on the Disney Channel, was found face down on a first-floor patio at the hotel without his shoes, wallet or phone. Local police said the fall was an accident but his family believe his death was suspicious.

Private investigator Amanda Foster, who was hired by the family, said she had seen police files suggesting traces of unidentified blood were found on the fire escape where Tom was last seen alive. She also reported that he suffered “mysterious” injuries prior to his fall.

British police have never investigated the death and Tom’s family hope the findings from today’s inquest will renew pressure to uncover “the truth”.

Mr Ousby, an engineer from Denham, Bucks, said: “We believe Tom could have been murdered but, for whatever reason, the Spanish police have overlooked some key evidence. We just hope the coroner will have their own doubts and ask police here to finally investigate.”

Tom, a talented musician who had collaborated with singer Conor Maynard, had been working on Majorca handing out flyers. On the day he died he left his apartment at 6.15am and went to the four-star Atlantic Park hotel a mile away.

His family say evidence he may have been chased, robbed or attacked in the run-up to his death has not been properly investigated. He was last seen in an agitated state by a maintenance worker who told him to get off the fire escape.

Tests found no drugs in his body, and hotel staff said they saw him running away from someone shortly before the tragedy. His mother Lea, 47, brothers Lewis and Jake and sister Eden have campaigned with Tom’s father for answers, and last year failed in a bid to get then Attorney General Dominic Grieve to order a British investigation.

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