The teenage girl told police officers that her boyfriend had held her near the window while threatening, ‘I will throw you out, I will kill you’
CCTV Captures 18-year-old Falling From Tower Block After Boyfriend Pushes Her
A video captured the shocking moment a teenage girl fell 40ft from a tower block – before bouncing on the floor below. The girl was airlifted to hospital in critical condition having suffered a collapsed lung, ruptured spleen, cut to her liver and multiple broken bones.
The teenager, 18, was thrown of a window of a fourth floor flat at Merton House in Chelmsley Wood by Jordan Herring. She survived, having narrowly avoiding a serious injury to her head and was discharged from hospital a week later, reports Birmingham Live.
Herring was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm on the girl. Although he was found guilty, he was cleared of the more serious offences of GBH ‘with intent’ and attempted murder.
The 22-year-old from Solihull will be sentenced later this year. West Midlands Police released the CCTV footage which showed the teenager’s horror fall at 11.22pm on November 12, 2022.
They highlighted that victim, who has not been named, had given her consent for the footage to be released. Recalling the incident, she told police officers that Herring had held her near the window while threatening, ‘I will throw you out, I will kill you’.
She had no memory of what had happened after the incident. Herring claimed the teenager had climbed out and dropped herself out after they had a row about cheating.
He has been tried over the incident twice after the initial jury could not reach a majority verdict on some of the serious offences. They did convict him of coercive and controlling behaviour against the girl, who he assaulted before locking in a bedroom before going through her phone.
A biomechanics expert was tasked by the prosecution to investigate how the teenager landed and provide an opinion as to whether Herring’s account was plausible.
Herring had taken her to Merton House, where his mother Kerrie-Anne Grogan lived, in order to evade the teenager’s concerned family who had been looking for her. On arrival at the tower block, she showed signs of being ‘battered and bruised’ with two black eyes and marks on her neck which they had attempted to conceal with two hoodies.
Opening the case prosecutor Jamie Scott said: “The distance between the fourth floor of a block of flats and the ground is 11.4 metres – in another metric just over 37 feet.
“That’s how far this man’s girlfriend fell when he threw her out of the window.”
Further video footage from the block reveals Herring ‘strolling’ down the stairs after the horror fall, followed by his mother to pick the teen up. He is seen wrapping her up in a blanket and then taking her back upstairs.
It was more than an hour before emergency services were called. Ms Grogan told the 999 call handler that Herring prevented her from seeking help sooner.
His mother said that he had a knife and that she feared he may kill the girl as she demanded for police to attend. She later denied this in court blaming her own mental health issues and intoxication.
The jury convicted Herring on the basis he pushed or threw her out of the window but did not intend really serious harm. He remains remanded in custody.
