Gold Coast crime: Three men charged with murder over Surfers Paradise body

New details have emerged revealing how police believe a teenager at the heart of a murder investigation allegedly died after falling from a Surfers Paradise tower.

Three men charged with murder after tower fall. AAP Image/Richard Gosling

A TEENAGER at the heart of a murder investigation died falling from a Surfers Paradise tower while trying to escape from a violent robbery in the early hours of Saturday morning, police will allege in court.

Cian English from Hawthorne in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs was found suffering traumatic injuries after what was initially thought to be a fall from a balcony at the View Pacific resort in Surfers Paradise just after 3am on Saturday.

The three men, aged 20, 22 and 18 were charged overnight with murder and two counts of armed robbery in company.

The three were from Logan and Brisbane.

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Police at the scene of a high-rise death in Surfers Paradise at View Pacific Apartments in View Ave in Surfers Paradise. Picture: Jerad Williams

Detective Superintendent Brendan Smith said police would allege the incident occurred over the robbery of clothes and a mobile phone.

“What we will be alleging is there has been two groups of people staying at that accommodation, they have had some interaction and they have gone from room to room and had a party where some illicit drugs have been taken,” he said.

“During the course of the evening the three main offenders have robbed the victim and his friend at knifepoint and in the course of this the victim has attempted to escape and gone over the balcony and died.

“Given the circumstances, the consequences of the robbery and the threats made to the victim put the consequences on those three offenders.”

The 18-year-old is due to appear in Beenleigh Magistrates Court tomorrow while the other two men are expected to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court tomorrow.

The resort remains a crime scene today.

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The View Pacific Apartments in View Ave in Surfers Paradise remain a crime scene. Picture: Jerad Williams

A passer-by first spotted the body of the teen in the early hours of Saturday morning.

On arrival emergency services found a group of four teens one as young as 16 in the hotel room, in varying states of consciousness.

They were taken to Robina Hospital and treated for a drug overdoes.

Det Supt Smith said prescription drugs were found at the scene and were investigating links between the three men who were charged to break and enters at chemists in the Gold Coast’s north in the past week

The three charged men were known to police but did not know the victim English until Friday night.

Det Supt Smith said the alleged crime was devastating.

“It is a tragic circumstance around this – you have a young man on the Gold Coast with his friends and one thing has led to another and he’s now dead. I don’t know how you reconcile that as a family or even as a community,” he said.

“It is becoming too common and we need to stop it.

Violence doesn’t solve anything.”