£23,000 in compensation for stair fall death

A hotel has paid £23,000 in compensation after a woman fell to her death down a flight of stairs on the premises whilst on holiday with her husband. They had just arrived at their hotel and were on their way downstairs for something to eat when the incident occurred. She stepped through a doorway onto a staircase landing, and tripped and fell down a steep flight of stairs and struck her head against a wall on the landing below. She suffered a fractured skull and was taken unconscious by ambulance to hospital where she underwent an operation to have a blood clot removed from her brain. She died later as a result of the accident.