At about 18:00, Foster, his father-in-law and son walked towards an elevator and was playing with his son, said his lawyer, Alexandros Alexandrou.<\/p>\n
The court was told that as they approached the lift, the boy noticed a waterpark outside.<\/p>\n
It was said that Foster pushed the lift button, placed the child on the windowsill and the “inconceivable” unfolded before he could react.<\/p>\n
Alexandrou told an earlier hearing, which took place on October 6, that Foster’s life “changed forever” from that moment.<\/p>\n
Police were called to reports of a child falling “under unknown circumstances” at about 18:40.<\/p>\n
The boy was taken to Paphos General Hospital and later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
In a voluntary statement to police, Foster said when he placed his son on the windowsill, the boy “fell before he had a chance to grab him”.<\/p>\n
While Foster had alcohol in his system, it did not form a significant part of the case against him – and his lawyer said there was no testimony he was drunk.<\/p>\n
Alexandrou said Foster was held in custody for eight days immediately after the incident and had to call his daughter from custody to explain what had happened.<\/p>\n
The court heard the window was 2.85m (9.3ft) wide and 1.2m (3.9ft) high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At about 18:00, Foster, his father-in-law and son walked towards an elevator and was playing with his son,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-804423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}