British accountant falls to his death from 14th floor apartment in suspected suicide in Manhattan

A British tax advisor has plunged more than 100ft to his death from an apartment window in a suspected suicide while on a business trip to New York.

Duncan Hodgetts, 25, fell from the 14th floor window of the Executive Plaza building in midtown Manhattan at 8.30am yesterday morning.

He was found on a third-floor balcony of the neighboring Michelangelo Hotel, near the Rockefeller Center, and was pronounced dead at the scene.

It is understood the tax specialist for Ernst and Young, based in Birmingham, had been on a business trip when he fell from the balcony of one of the corporate apartments.

An NYPD spokesman said they were treating his death as suicide.

He said: 'Officers were called at about 8.29am to the Michelangelo Hotel to reports a man had jumped to his death. 

'His body was found on the third floor balcony of the hotel and he was pronounced deceased at the scene.

'Detectives from the mid-district precinct contacted his family and we are not treating the incident as suspicious.

'It is being treated as suicide and there are no further investigations into the matter at this stage.'

 

A doorman at a nearby hotel confirmed to MailOnline that a body was removed from the apartment building at 11am on Monday.

In a statement Ernst and Young said: 'We are very saddened to hear of the death of our colleague, Duncan Hodgetts.