Teenager dies in tower block fall

A teenager has died after falling from his bedroom window on the sixth floor of a tower block in south-east London.

Jovanni Peddie, 14, opened the window to look out but plunged on to a second-floor balcony beneath, his family said.

He was injured at Missenden block on the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth on Wednesday afternoon and was pronounced dead in hospital shortly afterwards.

Jovanni was “a lovely boy” who was bright and intelligent and wanted to be an architect, his aunt said.

“He was happy, bubbly and religious,” added Cherry Peddie.

“The family knows he has gone to the Lord.”

Jovanni attended Westminster City School in central London and was studying for his GCSEs.

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