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| An acrobat who plunged to his death at a music festival. |
Fans were horrified as Pedro Aunion Monroy, who lived in Brighton, fell 100ft to his death at the Mad Cool festival in Madrid last night.
In a Facebook post on Thursday, the 42-year-old tagged British boyfriend Michael Sell with a drawing of the couple together.
He wrote: 'I can't wait to see my beautiful boyfriend. Love, come to my arms!!!!!'
Green Day have been criticised for performing just moments after the acrobat's death, but later issued a statement saying they were unaware he had died until they came off stage.
The horrific accident happened as the performer was descending in an illuminated box for a stunt during a break between British Band Alt-J and the US rockers.
Footage shows the acrobat falling from the box in front of 35,000 people in the crowd at the Mad Cool Festival in Spain.
Mr Monroy was a director of In Fact performing arts company based in Portslade, Brighton.
In Spain his aerial dance group performed under the name Ciadehecho.
His sister confirmed on social media yesterday that the artist had lost his life after falling 100ft from a suspended cage in front of 35,000 people at the Mad Cool Festival.
She said he had died 'doing what he liked best, a show at Mad Cool'.
Dozens of fans criticised festival organisers on social media for their decision to continue with the concert.
An official statement from the organisers’ Twitter feed, posted overnight, said: 'Mad Cool Festival regrets the terrible accident that an aerial dancer has suffered during the second day of the festival.
'For security reasons, the festival decided to continue with the event. We offer our sincere condolences to the dead man’s family.
'Today we will pay tribute to the artist during the festival.'
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