UPDATE: Community leaders pay tribute as man is named locally.

A man has died after suffering serious head injuries in a fall from a second floor balcony in High Wycombe on Sunday.

Police and ambulance were called to a block of flats in The Pastures at around 9.35pm on December 27, to reports that a man had fallen from a height.

South Central Ambulance Service, which sent two ambulances to the scene, took the man to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, but police have confirmed he died of his injuries yesterday.

Officers are now investigating the death, which is being treated as unexplained.  

A shocked resident, who lived in the block where the incident happened, told how paramedics “did everything they could” to get him to hospital quickly.

She said she did not know the ‘young lad’ and did not think he lived in the building.  

Residents who live near the flats described how police officers had cordoned off the building, near to Disraeli School, and had remained at the scene until yesterday afternoon.

An elderly resident, who did not want to be named, said: “When I went out yesterday morning there was tape blocking off the flats to stop people getting through and police outside.

I didn’t know what had happened but I did see a police woman standing by the tape. The police were there for a couple of hours.

“It is a very sad thing to happen.”  

Another resident, who wanted to remain anonymous, said forensic teams had been at the scene yesterday.

He said: “I tried to walk down through the flats but they said I couldn’t go through.

“I saw some flowers there this morning. My neighbours told me someone had fallen, but we are not quite sure what happened.

“It is a very shocking thing to happen. We cannot believe it.”