A British holidaymaker plunged to his death from the balcony in Icmeler
He had gone on holiday to try to get over the tragedies, but fell to his death after a drunken row with his girlfriend. Police were last night investigating whether he killed himself by jumping from a fifth-floor balcony at the Litera Hotel in the resort town of Icmeler Marmaris. Minutes earlier fellow guests and tourists heard the steelworker and his 27-year-old girlfriend Leah Powell involved in a desperate and drunken row in their room.
Following the tragedy Miss Powell told officers that her boyfriend had lost a number of friends among the series of suicides in Bridgend. One police source said she had then sobbed: 'Adam has been suffering from depression since he lost several friends in the last year - they all committed suicide back home in Wales.'
Yesterday Turkish police were still trying to piece together the last moments of Mr Thomas's life after he flew out with his girlfriend for a sunshine break to help him overcome his depression. Yesterday friends in the close-knit village of Llangynwyd where he lived were shocked by his sudden death. Councillor Mari Jones, of Bridgend County Borough Council, said: 'It is a terrible tragedy when we have had so much.
'They are a very nice family and everyone is very upset. He was a good boy and it is a terrible thing to happen.' Mr Thomas said Miss Powell flew out to Turkey on June 1 for a seven-day holiday, but the trip turned to disaster last Thursday after they had a heated drunken argument. A member of staff in the Litera Hotel's bar explained: 'They were both very drunk and screaming and shouting at each other in the bar. They went out into the street and continued fighting.'
At one stage Mr Thomas bought a rose for Miss Powell as a peace offering and the pair went upstairs to their room -- leaving staff to believe they had made up. However their row erupted again minutes later and British tourist Angela Ball, who was staying with her family opposite the hotel, said: 'They were really screaming at each other. At first I thought it was cats fighting. You couldn't really understand what they were saying but the next thing there was a major commotion outside in the street.'
Mr Thomas is thought to have fallen more than 75ft and police and ambulance crews who arrived at the scene tried desperately to save him. He was taken to hospital in the town of Mucla - a 45 minute drive from Icmeler - but despite the efforts of doctors he died from multiple injuries on Saturday. Immediately after the fall police attempted to interview Miss Powell but sources claimed she was too drunk to talk. She was unable to recall whether Mr Thomas jumped or tumbled accidentally from the balcony, they said.
She has since told officers of her boyfriend's depression following the Bridgend suicides. Yesterday a family friend confirmed Mr Thomas had known three of the Bridgend victims and said: 'Everyone around here knows someone who has died or knows a family member or close friend of someone who has died.
'Leah had been very worried about Adam because he wasn't getting over it. She hoped the holiday would be a clean break.' Llangynwyd is a former mining village in the valleys to the north of Bridgend. The talented musician, who obtained a music degree from Cardiff University, had been working at the Corus steelworks after his dreams of being a rock star failed to materialise.
Friends said yesterday that Mr Thomas had been a guitarist and lead singer with his band called The Big Shiny Cave. But the group broke up a year ago and he joined the steelworks. Malcolm Jones, a family friend, said: 'Adam was very talented on the guitar, drums and as a singer. His band appeared on television. But they broke up and Adam started working for Corus where his father works on IT.
'Adam was a very nice genuine guy and it is a terrible shock for all that he is gone.' His parents Tudor and Shirley flew out to Turkey immediately after the tragedy and were understood to have flown home with his body yesterday. Miss Powell's father Roger said yesterday that the couple had been going out for the past nine months and had flown out for their holiday the Sunday before last.
'Adam had known some of the local lads who died but I don't know anything more about that. We don't know for sure what happened,' he said. Mr Thomas was the second British holidaymaker to fall from a Turkish hotel balcony in a week. On May 30 20-year-old Theo Paget, from Leicester, fell from a balcony in Marmaris. He broke his back after a four-hour row with his girlfriend Chantelle.09/06/08
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