THE city broker party king, who feared he’d lose his job, leaps to his death from rooftop restaurant.

A FLAMBOYANT banker who leapt to his death from an eighthstorey rooftop restaurant went out in style, his family said last night.

Anjool made this music video with friends of the song Hallelujah.

Anjool Malde poured himself a glass of champagne and put on his best Hugo Boss suit before jumping from the roof of an upmarket London restaurant.

The entrepreneur from Yarm, near Stockton, who feared he was about to lose his job, dropped from the top of the Coq d’Argent restaurant at No 1 Poultry, in London, on Sunday, only two days before his 25th birthday.

Mr Malde, a stockbroker for Deutsche Bank, had been asked to leave work early by bosses on Friday following “an inquiry into an IT matter”.

His parents, Naina and Bharat, are deeply shocked by the death of their only son, who was known as Jools by his friends.

In a statement, his parents said: “We are absolutely devastated.

Equally we are so touched by the warm words from his many, many friends that alluded both to his tremendous talent and positive, lively spirit.

“He was an inspiration to so many. He meant everything to us.

“Apparently he donned a Hugo Boss suit with matching designer accessories, treated himself to a glass of champagne at the muchfrequented, up-market city restaurant Coq d’Argent and jumped from an eighth floor rooftop. Style meant everything to him and that’s how he chose his exit.”

A close friend, who saw Mr Malde at the weekend before he killed himself, said he was “obviously upset” but would not go into detail about the nature of the problems he was having with his employer.

She said: “We are all truly devastated.

You don’t just walk off the top of a building unless something hugely upsetting has happened.

His parents are in pieces.

They have lost their only baby.”

Another friend said the Oxford graduate was upset after his employers deleted his Bloomberg account at work, which allows him to talk to other bankers and have access to the markets.

He said: “All of us have heard he was about to be suspended by Deutsche Bank and he was upset about it.

“I know for certain that the bank deleted his Bloomberg account, which was not a good sign.

“He was wearing his best suit and had a glass of champagne in his hand when he jumped. Jools always liked to do things differently.

He wanted to be noticed.”

A Deutsche Bank source said Mr Malde, who joined the company in 2005, had not been suspended, but had been asked to leave work at 3pm on Friday while an IT matter was investigated.

He graduated aged 20 with a geography degree and, in 2005, he was runner-up in graduate of the year, a national competition looking for students who have made the most of university life, winning £2,000.

He set-up an events management business, Alphaparties, organising social events at premier clubs in Mayfair, Soho and South Kensington.

He took his GCSE exams at Conyers School, Yarm, and his Alevels at Egglescliffe School, Eaglescliffe, near Stockton, before being awarded a place at St Peter’s College, Oxford University.

At university, he was a BBC radio presenter and music journalist and held more than 20 positions on university societies, including news editor of the student paper and treasurer of the university’s United Nations’ Association, while running an online music service and a banking forum, along with studying for his degree.