A murder investigation has been launched after an aspiring singer and actress plunged to her death from one of London’s tallest buildings.

Bethany-Maria Beales, 22, was killed after falling 13 floors from the 36-storey Heron building in the City in the early hours of Saturday, just hours after a night out with friends in the West End.

Over the following two days a man and a woman, both aged 38, were arrested by City of London police on suspicion of murder and later released on bail. Detectives are continuing to treat the death as suspicious.

Ms Beales’s body was found with "significant injuries consistent with a fall from a height" on the glass ceiling of a communal terrace on the sixth floor of the building in Moor Lane, near the Barbican.

She was last night described by her family as “an amazing talent” who changed the lives of all who met her.