THE family of Tom Ousby, who died in Magaluf last year after falling from a hotel balcony, said the startling coroner’s report has ‘confirmed their suspicions’.

A post-mortem examination has revealed that the DJ and drummer had been hit around the head before he plunged to his death from the ninth floor of a hotel in the Mallorcan holiday resort.

As far as Tom’s mother, Lea Ousby, is concerned, this points to murder.

Nineteen-year-old Tom also had bruises across his back and a black eye.

Mrs Ousby claims the way her son fell indicates he was unconscious before he hit the ground. But Spanish police have closed the case.

“It’s just absolutely shocked me beyond belief,” said Mrs Ousby.

“They say the case has gone ‘cold’ and that there’s no evidence, but we believe there is.”

The family, who moved from Hillingdon to Denham a fortnight before Tom’s death, do not believe he jumped but that he was pushed or thrown from a balcony at the Parc Atlantic Hotel on August 1 last year.

They have employed a Spanish lawyer and a private investigator, and arranged a reconstruction of the events that led to Tom’s death. The death certificate that has been issued states that the cause is ‘to be confirmed’.

Tom, a former pupil of Bishopshalt School in Hillingdon, was working in the resort last summer. It is not known why he was at the Parc Atlantic when he died because he was not staying there.

He had no drugs in his system when he died, and only a very small amount of alcohol, and had been in his own apartment about an hour earlier.

Witnesses report seeing Tom being chased by two men in the hotel grounds just before the fall, but the hotel says it no longer has CCTV images.

The Metropolitan Police has told the family it is powerless to act and the investigation is a matter for the Spanish authorities.

Since Tom’s death, thousands of pounds have been raised in his memory. A group of his friends are running in the Hillingdon Half Marathon on March 23 to raise cash for the Nystagmus Network, a charity carrying out research into the eye condition Tom had.

A family friend is supporting the charity through the pilates classes she teaches, and some of the £15,000 raised in the days after his death – initially to help with the family’s costs – has also gone to the charity.