Shocked neighbours tell of bid to help plunge boy
A KIND-HEARTED man has told of the moment he tried to save a child after he plunged from a flat window.
Ross Wilson, 38, rushed to help the four-year-old after he fell from the third floor window of the house in Lewiston Drive, Summerston.
The youngster landed on his back on the grass, narrowly missing a concrete slab by a matter of inches.
He is understood to have lived in the flat with his mum and older sister for less than a year, and was regularly seen out playing with other children in the neighbourhood.
Initial reports suggested the youngster was three years old, however it later emerged he is four.
Ross, who lives opposite the flat where the boy fell, said: “I went over and he was just lying there, kind of crying and making noise but his eyes were half closed.
“He had a huge cut on his tongue, he had bitten through it and there was blood coming out of his mouth.
“All the kids were running about screaming and crying, and someone went to get his mum who was upstairs.
“People have walked by that flat loads of times and saw the kids leaning out of the window. It’s dangerous the way it opens like that.
“I don’t know if he was leaning out to try and speak to his sister down below.
“Loads of kids were there when it happened, they are all really in shock.”
Ross, another local woman and a number of young children stayed with the boy until paramedics came to the quite residential scheme around 5.10pm on Thursday.
Trauma medics stayed with the boy in the ambulance and battled to help him on their way to the Royal Hospital for Children, where he remains in a serious condition.
Yesterday morning investigators were questioning residents about what they had seen, and two officers examined the window and the flat from which the boy fell.
A chair could be seen up against the window, with residents claiming he had been standing on it before he tumbled out.
The flat where he fell from is the only flat in the block which appears to have windows which open fully inwards.
Other locals spoke to the Evening Times of their shock at seeing the tragedy unfold.
A six-year-old girl was also one of the first people to see the boy fall and ran to help him straight away.
She had been playing on the grass outside the flat with a handful of other kids when the boy fell.
The girl’s mother said: “My daughter was in a complete state, she was in tears.
“She said he was choking on his own blood...She was asking the boy if he was alright but there was blood coming out of his mouth.
“We’re like a family here and we can’t believe this has happened.
“His mother came down the stairs screaming, she was hysterical.”
Another neighbour, who lives opposite the flat, said she was coming home from the supermarket when she saw paramedics at the flat.
She said: “I saw the wee boy with his tongue just hanging out, he was foaming at the mouth. It was just horrific. I didn’t know what had happened until later on. It’s just unbelievable. I don’t think the flat should have those windows if it is up that high. Especially if there are children there.”
Police are now investigating, and said: “Enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances of the incident.”
An ambulance service spokesman said: We received a call at 5.10pm on Thursday 22 June to attend an address on Lewiston Drive. One male patient was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.”