A British father whose son fell to his death at a Cyrprus hotel was allegedly swinging his child 'from side to side' near the fourth-floor window of the building, a court has heard.

Police arrested the boy’s father, a 37-year-old man after the tot fell from the fourth-floor window of a hotel in Cyprus on Sunday evening.

The 37-year-old and the boy were playing in the corridor on the fourth floor while waiting for a lift before the toddler plunged 33ft to the hotel's main veranda below.