Why do the BBC refer to this as a fall?

[Anotherdaynodollar]

This article (man imprisoned for throwing his girlfriend over a balcony from a high rise block of flats) from the BBC.

Twice they refer to it as a fall. Why?

He has been found guilty of throwing her over the balcony. She didn’t fall!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedeze6w5wqo

Because it reads better? Because they address that he threw her off in the first sentence? Because gravity led to her falling to the ground after he pushed her over?

I agree that they could have put 'on the night of the attack'. Sometimes journalists just try not to repeat the same word too many times in an article and it is clear that he attacked her.

Including photo captions it’s three times referred to as threw/thrown and three times referred to as fell/fall.

When someone throws you…. You fall. It’s physics. Not criminal terminology.

What a horrible man thank god she is ok (well physically)

They are using “fall” in its technical, physics meaning. It doesn’t mean accident or suchlike and nor does it imply that only she was involved.

Because when the jurors heard it; he hadn't been convicted - so it would have been presented as she had fallen (not jumped, not walked, not flew). She had left the balcony and moved toward the ground.