Four-year-old in serious condition after plunge from second-floor flat

HANNAH RODGER

Children who were playing on the grass outside the property in Lewiston Drive, where the boy lived with his mother and older sister, witnessed the incident shortly after 5pm on Thursday.

One mother said: “My daughter was in an absolute state of shock, she was in tears.

“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 had happened.

“His mother came down the stairs screaming, hysterical.”

A neighbour of the family, who are thought to moved in over the past year, described a “commotion” as people gathered on the grass area to try to help.

She added that most of the people who saw the incident had been children, and it had left them “traumatised”.

The neighbour added: “My girlfriend was up all night after it happened, we are all so worried.”

Another resident, Ross, who lives

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was 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.”

Trauma medics stayed with the boy in the ambulance and battled to help him.

An ambulance service spokesman said: “We received a call at 5.10pm on Thursday, June 22 to attend an address on Lewiston Drive.

“One male patient was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.”

A police spokesman added: “Inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances of the incident.”

Kirk moderator Rev Derek Browning.