A 37-year-old British man pleaded guilty on Tuesday, at a hearing before Paphos District Court. The charge was causing his three-year-old son’s death through a reckless, careless or dangerous act.
The case concerns the boy’s death after he fell about 10 metres from the fourth floor of a hotel in Paphos, on the first day of the family’s holiday in Cyprus.
His defence lawyer, Alexandros Alexandrou, asked the court for time to prepare on the facts and on mitigation of sentence. The prosecution’s representative, Chryso Perganti, raised no objection.
The court set the case down for 5 October 2026, at 10am, and ordered that the man be released on the same conditions.
At a previous hearing on 27 August, his lawyer had asked for his client’s prosecution to be suspended on humanitarian grounds. The prosecution said at the time that the request had been rejected. The Attorney General acknowledged the tragedy of the case, but noted that this did not change the fact that the three-year-old child had died.
The man had travelled to the United Kingdom after his bail conditions were temporarily suspended, to attend his son’s funeral and deal with procedural matters in his capacity as guardian.
Paphos District Court had temporarily lifted his bail conditions from 7 August to 14 September. From 15 September, the original conditions were reinstated, including a €20,000 cash bail, a ban on leaving Cyprus, the surrender of his travel documents, and a requirement to report weekly to Paphos Police Station.
(Information from Cyprus News Agency)
