Paphos Police are expected to submit the file on the death of a three-year-old boy to the Law Office on Friday. The boy died after falling from the fourth floor of a hotel in Chlorakas.
Michalis Nikolaou, Assistant Police Director of Operations for Paphos and Press Spokesperson for the Paphos Police Directorate, said investigators have completed most of their inquiry and will seek instructions from the Law Office on next steps. Nikolaou said the possibility of filing the case directly before court is being considered, even before the detention order against the boy’s 37-year-old father expires next Tuesday.
However, according to information, the most likely scenario is that the 37-year-old father will be released on conditions.
Nikolaou said laboratory test results are still pending. Meanwhile, the father, who remains in detention, has submitted a request through his lawyer for immediate release.
In a letter published yesterday by philenews, the father’s lawyer argues that continued detention no longer serves investigative purposes and is further worsening his client’s psychological state.
The letter states that the father wants to be released so that he and his wife can inform their five-year-old daughter of the family tragedy, since she has so far only been told that her brother is in hospital. The letter notes the father does not object to strict restrictive conditions to ensure his presence before the Paphos District Court.
The tragedy occurred around 6pm on Sunday, when the three-year-old, who was staying with his parents at a hotel in the Paphos district, fell from the fourth floor of the building.
Police are investigating the 37-year-old father for causing death through a reckless, careless or dangerous act, neglect of duty as head of the family, and neglect of responsibility as a person with care of another person.
According to police and post-mortem findings by forensic pathologists Dr Angeliki Papetta and Orthodoxos Orthodoxou at Nicosia General Hospital’s mortuary, the cause of death was a severe head injury along with multiple injuries to the body and vital organs, caused by the fall from height.
Meanwhile, Evripides Loizidis, president of the Paphos Hoteliers Association, said the hotel bears no responsibility for the tragic incident.