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Vicar's girl had 'been drinking before death'
Jack Lefley, Evening Standard21.05.08
An adopted Brazilian daughter of a vicar had been drinking heavily with two teenage girls for more than six hours before jumping to her death, it has been claimed.
Rosimeiri Boxall, 19, is thought to have leapt 50 feet from an attic window at about
6.30pm on Saturday to escape teenage attackers who had allegedly imprisoned and assaulted her while filming on mobile phones.
Today Holly Dowse, 17, said she saw Miss Boxall and two other teenage girls drinking bottles of wine and spirits from noon onwards at the halfway house in Blackheath before she died.
Miss Boxall was adopted as a toddler by a missionary family from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro. But after they returned to the UK four years ago she dropped out of school and virtually cut all ties.
Her adoptive parents, the Rev Simon Boxall, 51, and his teacher wife Rachel, 49, have said her death had "left a void that cannot be filled". She had been staying in the topfloor flat of the converted Georgian house used as a temporary housing facility by Greenwich council. Miss Dowse, who lives in a flat within the house, said: "I saw them twice on Saturday in the early afternoon.
"The three girls were in the flat with two boys. I could see they had bottles of Lambrini on the side and a bottle of Amaretto
... They all seemed well on their way to being drunk. I only saw one of the boys."
It is alleged an earlier argument about a boyfriend may have escalated that evening.
Miss Boxall broke several bones and suffered massive internal bleeding in the fall. Police arrested two girls, aged 17 and 13, in connection with her death. Both were released on police bail.
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