A three-year-old British boy who died at a hotel in Chlorakas late yesterday afternoon suffered a severe craniocerebral injury, along with multiple injuries to his body and vital organs, as a result of a fall from a great height, an autopsy has confirmed.
The finding came from an autopsy carried out at noon today at the mortuary of Nicosia General Hospital, conducted by forensic pathologists Angeliki Papetta and Orthodoxos Orthodoxou.
The boy’s father, 37, was remanded for eight days by Paphos District Court earlier today over the death. He appeared before the court without a lawyer, with relatives citing the family’s difficult psychological state and lack of time to arrange representation. He faces charges of causing death through a reckless, careless or dangerous act, failing in his duty as head of the family, and failing in his responsibility as a person who had care of another person.
The boy had been on holiday with his family at the hotel, where they had arrived the previous day and were due to stay until the 25th of the month.
According to police investigations, he was playing with his father in a fourth-floor corridor at around 6pm when, under circumstances still under investigation, he fell through an open corridor window and landed on the hotel’s first-floor veranda. He was taken to Paphos General Hospital, where doctors on duty pronounced him dead.
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