Father on murder charge after fatal Crete fall

A British man who fell from a hotel balcony in Greece with his two children has been charged with murder after his six-year-old…

A British man who fell from a hotel balcony in Greece with his two children has been charged with murder after his six-year-old son died.

The man has also been charged with attempted murder after his two-year-old daughter survived the fall on the island of Crete.

She is in hospital in a stable condition. The man (32) is under police guard in hospital and is also in a stable condition.

He fell from a fourth-floor hotel balcony with the two children on Tuesday evening in Ierapetra, a popular holiday destination on the south coast of the island.

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The father was said to have travelled from Britain for a two-week holiday.

The director of the Agios Nikolaos hospital said: "The father says he doesn't remember anything and claimed he was confused and had been drinking. . . . This is a case that is truly tragic."