HOTEL HORROR - Man's Face Being 'Ripped Off' By Window Cleaning Cradle

An accident where a man had his face 'ripped off' by a sofa which reportedly fell from the penthouse of a luxury hotel may have been caused by a WINDOW CLEANING cradle, it has been reported. Witnesses recoiled in horror after the man was struck by the falling furniture in broad daylight.

 The victim, thought to be in his 20s, is believed to have been walking past the W Hotel in London's Leicester Square when the horrific incident happened on Friday morning.

According to The Sun, the two-seater sofa fell from scaffolding on one of the £9,533-a-month penthouses on the ninth floor at the five-star building in the heart of central London's busy tourist district.

A witness said: 

"There were people cleaning the windows. A security guard at the hotel said they had put the sofa into the cradle, which was big enough for three men and it fell out."

The newspaper quoted one witness as saying: 

"[The man] looked like his face had been ripped off.

"It was raining and where the drops were hitting his face it was making him scream in agony."

The man was taken to hospital with a serious head injury, where he is believed to be in a critical but stable condition.

Reports of a person being "hit by a falling object" in Wardour Street came in to the London Ambulance Service yesterday at 8.52am.

They "treated a man at the scene for a head injury and took him as a priority to a major trauma centre at a hospital in central London", a spokesman said. Scotland Yard were also at the scene after being told that a pedestrian had been injured by what was believed to have been "a piece of furniture which fell from scaffolding".

The spokesman said: "The man, aged in his twenties, was taken to an east London hospital by London's Air Ambulance

"His condition is critical but stable.

"The Health and Safety Executive has been informed."

The incident happened at the Swiss Centre building, which houses the W London Leicester Square and a number of privately managed residences, according to a spokesman for W London Leicester Square.

He said: 

"The exact circumstances of this accident are still being investigated by the local authorities, which we support in their investigations. "Our thoughts and prayers go to the gentleman concerned, who is being treated in hospital for his injuries."

Source
The Mirror