British man pleads guilty to negligence in fatal fall of his 3-year-old son while in Cyprus
The father admitted causing death by a reckless act, and prosecutors will outline the case at a later hearing.
- On Tuesday, a 37-year-old British father from Essex appeared at Paphos district court in Cyprus to enter a plea regarding his son's death from a hotel window fall.
- The child died on July 12 after falling ten metres from a fourth-floor window at the King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort in Chlorakas during a family holiday.
- Before the hearing, Cyprus Attorney General George Savvides rejected a defence request to drop the case on humanitarian grounds, though the father provided a €10,000 guarantee to return for proceedings after attending his son's funeral in the UK.
- The father pleaded guilty to causing death through a rash or negligent act, avoiding a lengthy trial that his lawyer Alexandros Alexandrou said would "again a victim of this tragedy."
- A further hearing is scheduled for October 5 when the prosecutor will present case facts and the defence will offer mitigation; the father disputes the prosecution's account of how the fall occurred.
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A British father has pleaded guilty to the death of his three-year-old son who fell from a hotel window in Cyprus last July. The 37-year-old, from Essex, was on a short holiday with his family in Paphos when the boy, reportedly aged three, fell from the hotel’s fourth-floor window under unclear circumstances. During a hearing held on Tuesday at a Paphos court, the father, accompanied by his parents, admitted the charge of causing death by reckle…
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The Independent (US)British father admits causing toddler son’s death after fall from Cyprus hotel
Paphos court heard the boy fell through an open window when his father was holding him around his waist and swinging him from side to side
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British man pleads guilty to negligence in fatal fall of his 3-year-old son while in Cyprus
A British man has pleaded guilty to negligence in the fatal fall of his 3-year-old son from a hotel window during a family vacation in Cyprus.
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