Drunken ‘idiot’ in 15-storey fall

A 20-year-old British man who miraculously survived a fall from a 15th-storey balcony in New Zealand while drunkenly trying to break into his apartment has labelled himself an “idiot”.

Tom Stilwell plummeted from the balcony in his Auckland apartment block, suffering broken bones and cuts but leaving experts amazed that he was still alive.

Stilwell had arrived home to find himself locked out of his 14th-storey apartment and decided to clamber down to his balcony from a neighbour’s property one floor above. Instead he slipped, plunging 13 floors before an adjacent roof broke his fall.