A FATHER who threw his two children off a hotel balcony, killing his son, won permission to launch a High Court challenge yesterday against an inquest verdict of unlawful killing.

A BRITISH father who is accused of killing his six-year-old son in a fall from a hotel balcony made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself in prison, his lawyer said last night.

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