Father tried to comfort son, 2, after window fall

A father yesterday broke down as he told an inquest how he tried to comfort his baby son who had sustained horrific injuries after falling from an upstairs window of their home in Midleton in Co Cork.

Vakaris Martinaitis, 2, died from serious head injuries two days after the fall at his family’s home in the Paddocks, Castleredmond, Midleton, on May 6.

The inquest into his death heard that while Kevin Hennessy, the neighbour who made the 999 call to emergency services, initially told gardaí on May 9 that he had told ambulance control the boy had fallen from a window, he made a second clarifying statement on May 27 saying he may not have said about the window.