Keighley man, 20, died in fall from high-rise flat

Maurice Tretton – known as Moz – had been drinking vodka and taking cocaine before the fatal plunge, an inquest heard this week.

After the hearing his mother said she would never stop struggling with what had happened to her son, who was about to become a dad.

"He was just getting his life on track with a new flat and he was excited about becoming a dad," said mum Mandy Benson.

She added that he was much loved by all his family and everyone in the Braithwaite area.

The shocked community rallied round after his death in January.

A banner and other tributes were placed close to the Ring, and fundraising events were held to support the family.

Mr Tretton died at Adelaide House in Bingley, but had only recently moved there from North Dean Road.

He had attended Guard House and Oakbank schools.

Assistant Bradford coroner Oliver Longstaff said at the inquest on Tuesday that on the night of his death, Mr Tretton could have been "creating a dramatic situation" from which he wanted and expected to be rescued.

A party had started at his home but had moved to a neighbour's flat because it had louder speakers, the hearing was told.

Mr Tretton became jealous when he saw his girlfriend dancing with someone else. There was an altercation and the two men had to be separated before Mr Tretton left of his own accord to return home.

Shortly afterwards, his girlfriend and another girl followed and found him out of his front room window hanging onto the window ledge.

They both grabbed his arms but could not pull him back in and he fell.

Evidence from the girls described how he had asked them to pull him back in.

The girls ran outside and found Mr Tretton on the ground. Despite efforts to revive him by people at the scene and paramedics, he died from injuries including haemorrhage and skull fractures.

Detective Constable Michael Ineson, from Bradford Reactive CID, said police were satisfied after a full investigation that there were no suspicious circumstances.

But Mr Tretton's family said they did have concerns that some of the witnesses' evidence was conflicting and that the man he rowed with had never been interviewed by police, despite officers being told by the family they had later received messages from him saying he was also in the flat when Mr Tretton fell and that he had had hold of him.

Before concluding that Mr Tretton's death had been an accident, Mr Longstaff said: "It's significant to me that having got himself out of the window, he stayed there. If he wanted to harm himself there was time for him to do so.

"I think what was happening was a repeat of a behaviour pattern, seeking attention, creating a dramatic situation and wanting and expecting to be rescued from it. This occasion was more extreme, more perilous than the others."

Afterwards, Mr Tretton's family also praised Bradford's Motor Education Project for the help it had given him to turn round a former life and make a new start.

"He wanted to be a millionaire," said Mrs Benson.