Aussie plummets to death in Bali pool deck tragedy

An Australian tourist fell four floors to his death on the pool deck below, with Indonesian police investigating CCTV footage of his behaviour moments before the fall. Warning: Graphic.

An Australian tourist was seen on CCTV footage “staggering” into his hotel room before he was found dead four floors below beside the pool of his Bali hotel, according to police.

Police said the 47-year-old tourist fell onto the pool deck of The Haven Hotel in Bali at about 8 pm Wednesday local time.

The Haven Bali Seminyak supervisor Nova Iwan confirmed to News Corp Australia that guest Sean Johnaton had earlier checked into the hotel, reported to be for five days from July 20 to 25.

“The CCTV footage showed the victim staggering into the hotel room number 403 alone,” said Denpasar Police spokesperson First Inspector I Ketut Sukadi, according to a translation of CNN Indonesia.

An Australian fell to his death next to a pool at his Bali hotel. Picture: Polresta Denpasar

A witness named Sara Winata told the outlet that hotel guests on the pool deck began screaming and that she heard banging on windows from the fourth floor.

She ran to hotel security guard Ahmad Sopy and together they ran to the fourth floor, where guests were said the be screaming in the room Mr Johnaton was seen staggering into moments earlier.

After being unable to enter the room, the pair said they heard a loud bang on the wooden pool deck below.

The balconies of the rooms at The Haven Bali Seminyak overlook and surround the hotel’s pool on three sides. Police are investigating the cause of the death.

The Haven Bali Seminyak. Picture: Supplied

The Haven Bali Seminyak. Picture: Supplied

While Mr Sukadi did not immediately respond to a request for comment, he said prior that Ms Winata ran back downstairs to the deck pool where she found the Australian. He was wearing only black, camouflage pattern shorts and was contorted from the fall.

“It was true that the guest of room 403, or the victim, was lying unconscious, and when he looked at the fourth floor, the witness did not see anyone,” Mr Sukadi was quoted as saying.

A nurse from the Kuta II Health Center arrived on the scene and declared him dead from his injuries sustained in the fall, which were reported to include trauma to the head and multiple broken bones and limbs.

The death comes just weeks after 19-year-old Joshua Connell fell six floors to his death in Thailand.

Connell slipped and fell off a rooftop pool, plummeting to his death, during a backpacking holiday with mates.

Moments before the fall, the 19-year-old backpacker from Canberra was filmed on CCTV footage balancing along a wall above the swimming pool at the Paripas Patong Resort in Phuket.

Originally published as Aussie plummets to death in Bali pool deck tragedy