Boy in hospital after surviving plunge from top-floor flat to the grass below

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy was seriously ill in hospital last night after falling 30ft from a top-floor flat window.

The unnamed boy fell two floors on to grass from the living room of the property in Lewiston Drive, Summerston, Glasgow, at about 5pm on Thursday.

Neighbours said the boy lived at the flat with his mother and sister.

He is believed to have fallen out of the double glazed window, which can be opened outwards and upwards.

He landed on grass in the block’s front garden, missing a concrete drain cover and a metal fence.

Dad-of-two Ross Wilson, 38, who lives in the block directly opposite, was first on the scene after his kids rushed in to tell him what had happened.

Ross said: “I ran downstairs and found the little boy lying on the grass.

“He was completely silent until I touched his arm and he started to cry.

“He had a massive slit across his tongue and as he started to cry, he began to choke on blood.

“Someone ran upstairs to the little boy’s mum’s house to tell her he had fallen.

“She is Chinese and she doesn’t speak any English.

“She ran down with her daughter, who is about five. The family only lived there a few months.”

Officers took fingerprints from the window, where hand and finger marks could still be seen on the glass in the sun.

Neighbours reported seeing a chair close to the left of the upper flat’s window.

The boy was taken to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where he was said to be seriously ill last night.