A SCAFFOLDER has told of the horrific moment he witnessed an elderly woman plummet head first from the top of a Bexleyheath multi-storey car park.

Sammy Magee was standing outside Bexley Magistrates' Court with his friend Simon Sweeney when he saw the drama unfold at the Broadway Shopping Centre car park at about 10.15am yesterday. (May 1)

The 37-year-old, of Heron Hill, Belvedere, told News Shopper: “As we’ve come out of the court we saw the lady standing on the top of the car park.

“She got herself over the railings and sat on the top of the wall.

“As she came down sliding down the roof, there’s fencing all the way along the edge, and as she’s hit that it’s flipped her forward and she’s gone head first.

“It was literally seconds. You heard a thud (as she landed) from about 40-50 metres away.”

Mr Magee ran across the road to check her pulse and called the ambulance.

The London Air Ambulance landed on the top of Cineworld in the Broadway and paramedics arrived within minutes but she could not be saved and was pronounced dead at 10.30am.

The name or age of the elderly victim has not been released yet.

Mr Magee added: “I’ve never seen anything like it before, it was shocking.

"A lot of people were crying and hysterical.

"You see that type of thing on TV but never in real life.

“It’s horrific, what happened.”

Shop worker Fatima Karimi said she felt “physically sick” after seeing the woman’s body on the ground.

She was working on the checkout at Poundland immediately across from where the woman landed.

She did not see the incident but says people began crowding around the scene on the pavement by the Broadway Square car park.

Ms Karimi told News Shopper: “I saw an old lady on the floor.

“I thought at first she had fallen over; I didn’t know she had jumped from the roof.

“I thought she had collapsed.

“It was very shocking and I still feel physically sick.

“They should do something about the roof to protect people from doing that.”

The shop assistant’s colleague Hamid Shirzai was by the window when it happened.

He said: “I just saw someone lying there and a man was helping her.

“It was a lady and she looked older than 60.

“Looking at her hair I could see some blood.”

Anthony Creed works at the Marks and Spencer Branch right next to where the lady fell and says a colleague who “saw everything” had to go home early because he was “shaken up”.

A Wilkinson employee who did not want to be named added: “I was standing outside having a fag when a group of school kids came along with some teachers.

“One of them said ‘Miss, someone’s jumped off the roof’.

“The teacher stopped the kids there for a few minutes and moved on with them.”

Broadway general manager Peter Sedge said: “We are aware there was an incident at around 10.30am.

“There was a lady on the pavement outside and it appears she came off the roof.

“We called police and the emergency services and they took over.”

Met Police are currently not treating the incident as suspicious.

A post-mortem examination is due to take place in the next few days and an inquest into her death opened and adjourned early next week.