British father, 37, pleads guilty to causing death of toddler son who fell from Cyprus hotel windowsill

From the Newshound archive · first published 22 September 2026 · last updated 23 September 2026.

The King Evelthon Beach Hotel and Resort in Cyprus, where Joshua Foster's two-year-old son Jaxon fell ten metres to his death on July 12 after being sat on a windowsill with the window open.

Joshua Foster, 37, a KPMG AI director from Essex, set his two-year-old son on a windowsill at the five-star King Evelthon Hotel in Paphos on July 12, unaware that the window was open, and the boy fell 33 feet to his death. His lawyer Alexandros Ch. Alexandrou described it as 'a momentary lapse of attention, without any intention to cause harm'. Foster now faces up to four years in prison, with sentencing set for October 5 at Paphos District Court.

Foster pleaded guilty to 'end this story' and will be allowed home for 10 days before returning to Cyprus for sentencing.

A jail term of under three years could allow him to serve a suspended sentence in the UK rather than a Cypriot prison.

The toddler was the THIRD British tourist to die at the King Evelthon Hotel in four years — yet authorities focused solely on Foster rather than the hotel's owners.

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