More than two years have elapsed since actor Mark Blanco plunged to his death at the December 2006 “death flat” party also attended by Pete Doherty and friends, including “violent minder” Johnny Headlock. Now, as the Met Police look to finish up their second inquest, some previously unpublished CCTV footage of the death of Marc Blanco surfaces via the UK Daily Express. Although the story has cycled through several incarnations, it is established that this party took place at the well-known east London crack-house of Paul Roundhill. Blanco had attempted to persuade Doherty to attend his play. After about ten minutes of solicitation, Doherty finally had enough and asked Johnny Headlock to have a word with Blanco:

The video then shows Mark, ejected, leaving the block at 12.25am, but for some reason returning two minutes later when he is seen peering up at the balcony from the street before waiting a couple of seconds by the communal door then re-entering the mansion block.

Some 67 seconds later an almost lifeless body plunges from the first floor balcony on the communal stairwell.

He is seen smashing onto the side of a parked car before rebounding onto the pavement.

It is not clear whether he fell head or feet first, but the trajectory suggests he either jumped or was thrown or pushed.

This guy didn’t just fall and somehow manage to fly past the sidewalk and a row of cars before, finally, land in the street. Clearly, Mark Blanco was either pushed or had attempted to jump outward from the balcony. It’s actually some pretty creepy video footage because you can actually see the guy falling and hitting the pavement. 12 minutes later, some partygoers come out to check on him. In the two piccies below, 22 minutes after the fall, Doherty comes out of the party and then appears to double over as if vomiting:

As Roundhill calls an ambulance, Doherty is seen fleeing the unexplained death scene:

The ambulance reportedly arrived a full 28 minutes after Blanco’s fall, which detectives originally determined to be a suicide or accident. A second inquest was later opened:

Mark’s friends are questioning about other strange aspects of the singer’s behaviour in the aftermath of the tragedy.

They want to know why he returned to the death scene four months after the incident to record a video for his new single, “The Lost Art of Murder”.

The title was a direct reference to the 1827 essay “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” by Thomas De Quincey, an author Doherty’s friends knew Mark was obsessed with.

Yes, that song. While Doherty’s bit of video footage didn’t seem particularly incriminating, but his reasons for shooting the video at the “death flat” were quite bizarre. And still more talk:

Mark’s family is also convinced the police did not place enough significance on the plot of the play he was due to perform in, Dario Fo’s The Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

Mark was to play a character investigating the death of a political activist who had fallen from a police station window.

This is a truly fucked-up situation, and, at this point, it’s doubtful any conclusions will arrive. After all, Johnny Headlock’s 2006 Xmas Eve confession, “later retracted, was dismissed as the ramblings of a drug user and not followed up.” Oh, that’s just brilliant, mates.