'Indian-origin student died after falling from wall'

An Indian-origin student, who died after being hit by a train, had been trying to climb a wall in Birmingham to re-enter a nightclub, an inquest heard.

The Birmingham Coroners' Court heard that Jeevan Singh Dhanda, 18, fell from a wall 30 feet below on to tracks at New Street Station, the Mirror reported Thursday.

The teenager from Walsall in West Midlands lay injured on the rail line for three hours before he was hit by a train leaving the station.

He was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where he died Aug 13, 2013, six days after the tragic accident, the report said.

Hitesh Shirajlal, 31, from West Bromwich, was with Jeevan on the night of his death and fell from the same wall and died Aug 18, a day after he had been discharged from the same hospital.

British Transport Police's detective constable Tim Friend showed Jeevan's heartbroken family CCTV footage of Jeevan leaving Snobs nightclub.

Footage also showed the harrowing moment when Jeevan used a wheelie bin to climb the bridge wall and fell on to the tracks.

Detectives said the reason they (Jeevan and a doorman) were going to the rear door is because he had been asked to leave because he was sick.

Jeevan had been drinking at a friend's house before getting a taxi to Birmingham, they said.

"We examined his phone and all the messages on WhatsApp. When pieced together they indicated he was going to try to get back in the club," Friend was quoted as saying.

"It's our hypothesis he thought he could climb that wall and find a way back into the club. It's not uncommon, there has been a similar instance since and it has happened before from speaking to staff at the club," he added.

Jeevan, a student at Queen Mary's Grammar School in Walsall, died just weeks before he had been due to start an economics degree course at the University of Leeds, the report said.