British man, 58, believed to have fallen 6 metres down slope found dead in Hong Kong alley

A police spokesman said the man was declared dead at the scene.

“After conducting a preliminary investigation, it is believed that the man lost his footing and fell [about six metres] down a slope,” the spokesman said.

The source said the man was a British national and a Hong Kong ID card holder.

The force said an autopsy would be carried out to determine the cause of death.

In 2021, a 58-year-old man escaped serious injury when he forgot his keys and attempted to climb into his third-floor flat at a Tin Shui Wai public housing block after drinking heavily.

He scaled the building’s pipes from the ground floor to the third, but lost his grip and fell onto a first-floor canopy.

A German survived after he fell trying to climb into his third-floor flat in North Point in 2016. He appeared to be drunk at the time.

The man, 42, stepped on a bin and started his perilous ascent along drainpipes, but lost his grip before reaching his flat and tumbling onto the bonnet of a Mercedes-Benz parked and bouncing onto the pavement.