An Oxford student Simone Norowzian died after accidentally walking off a sheer cliff drop after an evening with friends, an inquest heard.
Simone Norowzian, 21, from Sunbury-on-Thames, was spending the August bank holiday in Margate with friends when she fell to her death after jumping over a railing she believed led to a hill and the beach.
On the evening of the accident Miss Norowzian had dinner and drinks at a Wetherspoon pub before returning to the Airbnb they had rented in the Kent town and playing truth or dare.
The English and Classics student headed out for a cigarette by the sea in the early hours of the morning when the incident occured near Margate Lido.
William Hayman, a friend of Miss Norowzian, had accompanied her outside and heard a ‘short, sharp scream’ as she climbed the railing and fell, around ten meters ahead of him as he shouted to warn her of the cliff, Kent Online reports.
She fell onto the promenade below the sheer drop and was declared dead at the scene by paramedics at 3.40am on August 28.
A postmortem found Miss Norowzian had a blood alcohol level of over twice the drink drive limit when she died due to a severe head injury sustained in the fall.