Two Brits plunge 20ft to their deaths as Lanzarote hotel handrail collapses

Darren Silcox, 56, and Nicholas Thomas, 54, both from Cwmbran, Wales, died after falling from a balcony at the Galeon Playa Apartments in the resort town of Costa Teguise in Lanzarote

Darren Silcox, 56, and Nicholas Thomas, 54, both from Cwmbran, Wales, died after falling from a balcony at the Galeon Playa Apartments in Lanzarote, with a joint inquest into the hotel balcony collapse now under way

Shopkeeper Darren Silcox, 56, from Cwmbran, and family friend Nicholas Thomas, 54, also from Cwmbran, fell from the balcony in Lanzarote in the early hours of the morning