Tower plunge girls had been drinking

Danielle Waddington had just started as an apprentice hairdresser

Test results have revealed two girls who died after falling from a tower block in Essex had been drinking, but not taking drugs.

Danielle Waddington, 16, from Southend, and her 18-year-old friend Lisa Utton, of Rochford, fell 120 feet from a window on the 11th floor of Cecil Court, Jones Close, Southend.

On Wednesday police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the girls' deaths, but their investigations were continuing.

Toxicology tests carried out at Imperial College in London revealed the girls had a "moderate amount" of alcohol in their blood but showed they had not been taking drugs.

Post-mortem examinations on the bodies of two girls found they died of multiple injuries.

Drunken and distressed

They were found on a concrete area below the flats on Sunday 16 November.

Essex Police said they believed the girls had to climb over a railing and on to a ledge before falling through the window.

Some 70 minutes earlier, the teenagers had walked out of the accident and emergency department in Southend Hospital about half a mile from the tower block.

Officers said they had been picked up by an ambulance near the seafront in the town, apparently in a drunken and distressed state.