An inquest has opened into the death of a man who fell from a town centre building.

The victim was named as Mark Williams and a coroner heard today, that it happened at the Pentagon area of The Brook in Chatham on Thursday, January 28.

The hearing, at County Hall in Maidstone, was told that a post mortem examination showed that the victim died of multiple injuries.

He was identified as Mr Williams, 53, a refuse collector from Darnley Road in Strood.

Mr Williams was a single man who was born in Chatham.

Area coroner Katrina Hepburn adjourned the inquest until June 8 at County Hall in Maidstone.

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