Boy, 2, stuck for 40 minutes after fall down 9m shaft

A TWO-YEAR-OLD child fell about 9m down a shaft in a multi-storey car park and was trapped for 40 minutes as his helpless parents tried to comfort him, a court heard yesterday.

Barrister Patrick Purcell told the Circuit Civil Court that Mr and Mrs Stephen Boyce, parents of Ben Boyce, were able to hear their son after he fell down the shaft from the second floor of the car park, but could not see him.

Mr Purcell said the circumstances of the accident on February 2, 2009, were unusual.