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Musician, 26, jumped from seafront tower on leave from hospital

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Tom James died on June 13 last year, having fallen from the landmark Atlantis Tower on the Great Yarmouth seafront around two weeks earlier.

An inquest into the 26-year-old's death resumed on Tuesday, May 6, at Norfolk Coroner's Court and heard of his complicated history of mental health struggles.

At the time of his death, Mr James, from Lowestoft, was an in-patient at Northgate Hospital in Great Yarmouth having been sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

On May 29, at around 11.10am, he was granted unescorted leave from the hospital and was due to return after two hours.

But within an hour, emergency services were........

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