Couple arrested after toddler falls to his death from Hong Kong flat

A Hong Kong couple have been arrested after their one-year-old son fell to his death from a high-rise residential building in Tsuen Wan, the South China Morning Post has learned.

Preliminary investigations showed that the living room windows in the family’s fifth-floor unit were neither locked nor fitted with grilles, according to a source.

The parents, including the boy’s 47-year-old father, were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of ill-treatment or neglect of a child.

The case is being investigated by police’s Tsuen Wan district crime squad.

Police received a report at 10.37am after a resident found the child unconscious on the podium of Block 5 of Hanley Villa in Tsuen Wan.

The source said the boy lived in the fifth-floor flat with his parents and a seven-year-old brother. At around 10.30am, both boys were playing in the living room while their mother was in the room. The father was resting in a bedroom at the time.