A City stockbroker who feared he could lose his job jumped to his death from the eighth storey of an upmarket restaurant in London.

Anjool Malde, a broker at Deutsche Bank, was just days short of his 25th birthday when he fell from the Coq d’Argent restaurant near Bank in Central London on Sunday.

Mr Malde, who co-founded the events company AlphaParties, had been asked to leave work early on Friday after “an inquiry into an IT matter”.

A close friend who saw Mr Malde at the weekend said that he was obviously upset but would not go into details of the problems he was having at work.

Mr Malde was due to celebrate his 25th birthday today at the Amuse Bouche nightclub in Soho at an event run by AlphaParties, which organises parties for well-heeled young professionals, students and interns.

Mr Malde was a graduate of St Peter’s College, Oxford, and had worked as a presenter on BBC Radio Oxford before joining Deutsche Bank.

His parents, Naina and Bharat Malde, were said to be deeply shocked after being informed of the death of their only son by City of London Police.

A police spokesman said that the body had not been formally identified, but that the death was not being treated as suspicious.

Mr Malde was known as Jools to friends, who said he “had it all”. One friend, Andre Campbell, said: “I’m so shocked, I can’t believe it.

“He was like a role model to me. He was so encouraging and welcoming, because I want to be a young entrepreneur like him. He was living the dream.”

A spokeswoman for Deutsche Bank, Michelle Gathercole, said that Mr Malde had not been suspended. She added: “We are deeply saddened by our colleague’s death and our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this time.”

She would not elaborate on the nature of the inquiry into the IT matter, saying: “He was due back in work this week to help us carry on with our inquiries.”

Mr Malde’s mother, a teacher, and his father, a psychologist, live in Yarm, near Middlesbrough. They had seen their son finish second in the UK Graduate of the Year awards when he graduated with a degree in geography aged 20 in 2005.

Mr Malde had recently described on the networking site Twitter his grief over the death of Michael Jackson and said that it had made him cry for the first time in a decade.

He wrote: “It may thus be treated with bemusement that I spent 24 hours perpetually teary-eyed upon hearing about the death of someone I’d never met.”

Local workers in the area of the Coq d’Argent described a “really awful” scene after Mr Malde leapt to his death on Sunday. Mr Malde was not the first person to commit suicide from the restaurant — in April 2007, a City marketing executive, Richard Ford, jumped to his death, landing on top of a number 76 bus.

Explore UK News

• Crime News

• Education News

• Health News

• Scotland News

Times Recommends

• Should Knox’s trial even have reached the courtroom?
• All that glitters is not sold in Wright’s world
• Believe it or not, Big Brother is your friend