Man dies in Stoke Newington police station after leaping from telephone kiosk

A 68-year old man has died after sustaining critical injuries from jumping from a phone kiosk at the reception of a Stoke Newington police station.

Hackney Police tweeted that a man had “climbed onto a telephone kiosk in the front office and jumped off, sustaining critical injuries. Despite the efforts of police officers and ambulance colleagues the 68-year-old man was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

“The man had not been arrested or taken to the police station by officers. He had been in and out of the police station since around 9am. He does not appear to have made any effort to report anything to police”.

The Hackney police station front desk was closed on Saturday night.

A police update on Twitter said: “The man who died is a white man in his 60s.” His name or any more details of what happened are yet to be released.

The incident is under investigation by the Directorate of Professional Standards, the Metropolitan Police said.

Tottenham Copwatch, a local group posted online that “someone just walked in and died.”

They were reportedly told by police officers that the man had a “medical condition.”

Protestors were outside Hackney police station with placards reading: “1,839 deaths in police custody since 1990. No justice no peace,” while another sign read “You can’t reform this.”

The front office at Stoke Newington police station has now reopened to the public.