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Tragedy strikes Surfers Paradise as 23-year-old dies after falling from Church roof

byMark Bowling
28 February 2019 - Updated on 1 April 2021
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Tragic fall: Gold Coast parishioners come to grips with the tragic circumstances of the 23-year-old's fall.

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Tragic fall: Gold Coast parishioners come to grips with the tragic circumstances of the 23-year-old’s fall.

GOLD Coast parishioners are still coming to grips with the death of a 23-year-old man believed to have fallen through the skylight of a church.

Police say it appears the man “had been climbing on the roof” of St Vincent’s Church, Surfers Paradise, about 2am on February 24, hours before Sunday Mass.

It is understood the man, from Wales and who worked in a building close to the church, was among a group of five others who climbed onto the roof, before falling 10 metres to his death.

The church was declared a crime scene and Sunday Masses were cancelled. 

Columban Father Warren Kinne, who ministers in the parish, said he was turning people away on Sunday because Masses had been suspended.

“I have no idea why he was on the roof. But it is a great pity and a sad event for the family,” Fr Kinne said. “We’ll pray for them.”

Parishioners did just that the following day. 

Fr Kinne dedicated Mass to the man who died, prayed for him and reconsecrated the church and the altar close to where the man fell and landed.

“The Church is a beacon, and it is important the Church is here,” Fr Kinne said referring to the physical presence of the Church in Surfers Paradise.

“The sacred space and the sacred time is when two or three are gathered in His name.”

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Mark is the joint winner of the Australian Variety Club 2000 Heart Award for his radio news reporting in East Timor, and has also won a Walkley award, Australia’s most-respected journalism award. Mark is the author of ‘Running Amok’ that chronicles his time as a foreign correspondent juggling news deadlines and the demands of being a husband and father. Mark is married with four children.

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