Turkey lift shaft death family trying to investigate themselves

Mr Kerry arrived in Antalya with his grandparents, girlfriend Molly and other relatives on 27 November.

The 20-year-old had been enjoying everything the resort in Antalya had to offer, lounging by the pool, having drinks with family and making new friends.

Mason Read, his brother, was the last person to see him alive in the early hours of 29 November.

He said a group of them were drinking in the lounge area before spending about 10 minutes in a nightclub within the hotel.

They returned to the lounge area on the ground floor, where Mr Kerry was last seen by his brother taking off his jacket, T-shirt and shoes and going to sleep on a sofa.

“I went to the bar to get a drink came back and Tyler was not there, his clothes were but his phone wasn’t,” Mr Read explained.

A panicked search throughout the hotel ensued and Mr Read, plus Mr Kerry’s girlfriend, found him fatally injured at the bottom of the lift shaft.

They said hotel staff pointed to the shaft when asked if they had seen someone matching Mr Kerry’s appearance.

After he was found, his trousers and a blood-covered vape were found on the first floor of the hotel.