Delwyn 'Delly' Jones jumped off a building roof and landed on rocks

Delwyn 'Delly' Jones, 46, from Troedyrhiw near Merthyr Tydfil, died when he jumped off a building roof and landed on rocks at Berry Head, Brixham.

He been drinking with friends before making the jump, his widow Nadine said.

"I'd tell people to think before they do it especially under the influence of drink," she said.

Mrs Jones, 34, mother of four of Mr Jones' six children, said her husband, who was on holiday when he died early on Sunday, had jumped of cliffs "dozens of times" before.

"He was just fun loving," she said.

Think of your children, before you do it, because you think it'll be OK but this does happen Nadine Jones

"He would jump off trees into the River Taff and was a very good swimmer.

"He would also climb the lamppost outside the house. I hated him doing thinks like that, but it was the way he was."

Mrs Jones said her husband was "trying to entertain some boys in Brixham he had never met before" when he jumped from the building near a disused quarry.

"He wanted them to say 'don't do it' and wind them up. He would have done it if he'd had a drink or not," she said.

Practical joke

Coastguards have also warned the public of the dangers of the activity and Mrs Jones pleaded with others not to repeat her husband's stunt.

"Think of your children, before you do it, because you think it'll be OK but this does happen," she said.

The couple have four children: Ashley, 14, Jessica, 10, Michael eight, and Ethan, three.

Mr Jones, a pipe layer who worked all over the country, also had two grown-up children from an previous marriage: Jason, 28, and Kelly, 26.

Mrs Jones said friends had thought it was a practical joke when they were told what had happened to her husband because that was "what he was like".

"We just can't believe it. We're still expecting him to come home.

She added: "But he died doing what he loved in the place he loved. I would rather that than him die from an illness."

Mr Jones' funeral will take place at St John's Church in Troedyrhiw next Wednesday, followed by cremation.