A 26-year-old man may have taken his own life after falling 30ft from a car park roof, a court has heard. 

Tom James, of Bourne Road in Lowestoft, was taken to hospital after he was found following the incident earlier this month. 

An inquest into his death was opened at Norfolk Coroner’s Court. 

Area coroner, Yvonne Blake, confirmed that the primary medical cause of death was a traumatic brain injury and adult respiratory distress syndrome. 

This was due to an unwitnessed fall or jump from a car park roof. 

Mr James died at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on June 13. 

His sister, Lucy Smart, confirmed to a coroner’s officer that her brother had been born on February 19, 1998, in Great Yarmouth, and was unemployed. 

The court, based at County Hall in Norwich, was also told that Mr James had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. 

An inquest to determine the official cause of death will take place next year. 

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