This website is set up in memory of Mark Blanco. Mark was a talented individual who was killed in suspicious circumstances at a party with Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty.
Mark Blanco was due to play the lead in a new play that week and was keen to get some extra publicity for the production.
It appears that Mark tried to get Doherty to promise to see the play, at one point holding him against a wall, arms outstretched either side of the singer. Minutes later, Mark was on the pavement in the street below and fatally injured.
It seems the guests wanted to eject Mark from the party. Paul Roundhill admitted punching Mark several times, which explains some of bruises you see on his face in the picture above. They also set fire to his hat with lighter fuel. Their version is that they ejected Mark and closed the door. Roundhill, Doherty and Headlock then suggest Mark jumped from the balcony to his death.
“Nobody knows how he fell off the balcony. But I think he did not fall accidentally. In some way it seems he was doing a creative act or making a creative statement in his mind, having been ejected, by jumping” – Paul Roundhill
CCTV footage records Mark leaving the party twice. He immediately returned a second time and 56 seconds later he is seen falling to his death from the balcony.
One of the women at the party, Annabel Healdsmith, later admitted that Roundhill, Johnny Headlock and Doherty all went outside together to the balcony to eject Mark from the party. The three returned but Mark did not. On Christmas Day, Jonny Headlock walked into Bethnal Green police station and confessed to killing Mark Blanco. After being locked up, he retracted his statement and was allowed to leave by the police.
No one has ever been held accountable for Mark Blanco’s death. The police quickly attributed Mark’s death to an accident or suicide on the night of the tragedy. This was done without proper investigation and without interviewing key witnesses. The coroner Dr Andrew Reid rejected these conclusions on the 4th October 2007.
“The sound of his (Mark’s) impact on the ground was heard by a person in a neighbouring flat in the block 18 of Fieldgate Mansions. This person also heard preceding the impact with the ground, the sounds of a number of people up and down the stairs preceding this final event.
………….I will no longer go on any further to consider the possibility that Mr Blanco committed suicide, I can exclude it unreservedly. On the evidence I have heard, my only conclusion can be an Open Verdict. I am going to ask the Metropolitan Police Service to review and re-open the investigation.” (Taken from the inquest transcript.)
Dr Corrina Cory, expert in Injury Biomechanics worked with sophisticated scanning, 3-D modeling, the original CCTV and human modeling simulations (watch video). Her findings were passed to Professor Wassersug, world expert in Neurobiology and Anatomy. His report concludes:
Given the nature of his (Mark’s) injuries, the two most likely explanations are that he was backed into the railing and pushed over, or that he was not conscious, and was dropped over the railing.
“We have now moved this case from suicide or accident to unlawful killing,” Michael Wolkind QC. Legal representative of Sheila Blanco, Mark’s mother.
This website has been set up to keep track of the case developments & media articles on Mark’s death. This has been done at the request of Sheila Blanco, Mark’s mother. 
Donations to help her fight are deeply appreciated, (however small). Please use the PayPal button to the right of this page or view the bank details here. You are welcome to contact Sheila before donating.
It’s not just a fight for justice for Mark, it’s a fight for justice for any human being. The police force in this country have let us down for three years.
The Daily Express
CCTV ANALYSIS: Mark Blanco Death
The Daily Express
Police ‘Betrayal’ Over Death at Pete Doherty Rave
The Independent
‘My son was killed – and Doherty and his cronies were in some way culpable,’ says mother
DailyMail
‘This is my son after a night partying with Pete Doherty’; a mother tells her harrowing story