City hotspot Coq A’rgent did all it could to stop suicide says coroner
A CITY restaurant did everything it could to prevent a man jumping from its seven-storey roof garden, a coroner’s inquest has ruled.
Food blogger Wilkes McDermid jumped from the Coq D’Argent restaurant on Poultry on 8 February. The City of London coroner Dr Roy Palmer recorded his death as suicide, saying the cause was severe head injuries.
McDermid is the fifth person to have jumped from Coq D’Argent in recent years, but Palmer ruled that the restaurant had done “all it can” to prevent such incidents.
He said: “I am aware that this is not the first time someone has jumped from that restaurant. I know the City of London health and safety officers has visited it and so have I. The restaurant has done all it can to make it difficult, if not impossible, for people to leave the premises other than by the lift or the stairs.”
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