A man involved in a custody dispute who was supposed to turn his three-year-old son over to the boy’s mother instead threw the child off the roof of a 52-storey Manhattan apartment building before jumping to his death, police said.

A father involved in a custody battle has thrown his three-year-old son off the roof of a New York skyscraper before jumping to his death.

FORMER world amateur heavyweight champion, Mike ‘El Rebellio’ Perez, is set to make Cork the base from which he will challenge the world professional heavyweight title in a dramatic move that is sure to send shockwaves throughout the boxing world.