- A British father who pleaded guilty to negligence over the fatal fall of his three-year-old son in Cyprus has asked a court to spare him a prison sentence.
- Josh Foster, 38, accidentally dropped his son 12 metres from a fourth-floor hotel window in Paphos on 12 July after lifting him to see a waterpark.
- Defence lawyer Alexandros Alexandrou told the Paphos District Court that Foster suffered a momentary lapse of judgment and that the lifelong loss was punishment enough.
- Prosecution experts estimated Foster's blood alcohol level may have been over twice the legal limit at the time, though the defence argued alcohol was not a factor.
- Foster faces up to four years in prison and risks losing his career as an auditor, with Judge Froso Christodoulidou set to deliver her ruling on 16 October.
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British father pleads to be spared jail after son's fatal Cyprus hotel window fall
