Teen who fell from building looked like ‘falling parcel’

A WOMAN who saw a teenager fall 40 feet to his death said she at first thought she was looking at a plummeting parcel.

Teen who fell from building looked like ‘falling parcel’

Marguerite Beattie was describing the fleeting seconds after Joseph Olwill, 17, plunged to his death from the top of a three-story building at the end of a surfing holiday in Bundoran, Co Donegal.

Ms Beattie, from Belfast, was on holiday with her partner Chris Torbitt, their children and two grand-daughters, in a house directly opposite the tragedy, at 2.30am yesterday.

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