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.

A young British toddler has tragically died in Cyprus after falling out of a fourth-floor hotel window while on holiday with his parents.

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.