Family anguish: We couldn’t save our son

They were planning to celebrate his second birthday today. But instead, the parents of a toddler who died after falling from an upstairs window at the family home were last night preparing for his funeral.

Little Vakaris Martinaitis died at Cork University Hospital (CUH) on Wednesday from injuries sustained in the fall at the family home in the Castleredmond estate, just outside Midleton in Co Cork, on Monday.

His parents, Vidas and his wife, Aukse, also have an 8-year-old daughter, Agneta, who is to receive her First Holy Communion next weekend. They have not told her yet that her brother has died, unable to find the words to break it to her.