A MAN who died after plunging off scaffolding in Aberystwyth two days before Christmas was moved on by police after trashing a room at a top hotel hours before his death, the Cambrian News can reveal.

The 46-year-old man, named as Steven Peter Randall, refused to leave the hotel - believed to be Ynyshir Hall Hotel near Eglwysfach - after causing damaging to his room and police were called on the afternoon of Friday, 23 December.

After being made to leave the hotel and getting a taxi to Aberystwyth, just a few hours later, Mr Randall, from Salterton in Devon, fell to his death from 30-foot high scaffolding on a building on the corner of Rheidol Terrace and South Road at around 6pm.

The incident, which police said they are not treating as suspicious, saw South Road closed from the junction with Marine Terrace through to the junction with Bridge Street.

A police spokeswoman told the Cambrian News: “Dyfed-Powys Police received a report from a hotel in the Machynlleth area early afternoon of 23 December, of a male resident that had caused damage in a room, and was refusing to leave.

“Officers attended and spoke to both parties at length, but no complaint of a criminal offence was supported by the establishment.

“Therefore, in accordance with the situation, the male was given words of advice and asked to leave.”

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