A woman plunged to her death after falling from the sixth floor of her Hackney flat while trying to fix a broken drainpipe, an investigation into her death has found. Sarah McGreevy, 37, fell from her balcony at around 9.40am on June 16 and when police officers visited the scene they discovered a wooden box on the balcony and her mobile phone on a window ledge nearby.

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Fashion designer Sarah McGreevy, 37, fell from her home on the sixth floor of a tower block in Hackney, east London, after climbing up to unclog a congested pipe outside

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Sarah McGreevy, 37, plunged from the block in Hackney, east London (Picture: funeral-notices.co.uk/Getty) A woman fell to her death from the sixth floor of a tower block after leaning over her balcony to try and unblock a broken drainpipe. Sarah McGreevy, 37, plunged from the block in Hackney, east London, after climbing onto a wooden box on her balcony to try and reach the clogged pipe. An inquest into her death heard how residents in the counc…

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Woman died after falling from 6th-floor Hackney flat while unblocking drainpipe

A woman died after falling from her sixth-floor balcony while she was clearing a blocked drainpipe, an inquest has heard.

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A woman has fallen to her death in east London after toppling from a sixth floor balcony while clearing a blocked drainpipe.

Woman, 37, dies after falling from sixth floor flat balcony while clearing blocked drainpipe

The coroner has urged Hackney Council to take action following the death of Sarah McGreevy, 37, who reportedly worked as a fashion designer, on 16 June. She suffered fatal injuries when she accidentally fell over the balcony of her flat in east London at around 9.40am after climbing onto a wooden box to clear the pipe, the inquest, which finished on Wednesday, heard. Sarah Bourke, an assistant coroner for inner north London, wrote in a preventio…

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Sarah McGreevy died after falling from the balcony of her sixth-floor flat in Hackney while clearing a blocked drainpipe.

Woman died after falling from 6th-floor Hackney flat while unblocking drainpipe

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