The mother of a six-year-old boy who fell to his death from a hotel balcony today urged the British authorities to prosecute his father for pushing him.

Natasha Visser, speaking after a coroner ruled this morning that her son, Liam Hogan, was unlawfully killed, said that “justice has not so far been done”.

Liam, from Bristol, died of severe head injuries after falling 50ft from the Petra Mare Hotel, in Crete, with his father John and sister Mia, then aged 2.

Holidaymakers who were at the resort on the night of his death and witnessed his fall gave evidence in public for the first time yesterday at the boy’s inquest.

Friends Sarah and Iain Davidson and Kerry Jackman told Paul Forrest, the Avon Coroner, that they saw Mr Hogan push his two children from the balcony edge before jumping off himself.

Mr Hogan, 33, has been receiving treatment at a psychiatric hospital near Athens since a Greek court cleared him of murder, ruling he was suffering an “earthquake” of psychosis at the time of Liam’s death.

Mrs Visser, who has remarried since her son’s death, said the inquest had provided some “clarity of what happened that terrible night”, and thanked the coroner and witnesses.

She said that the verdict “comes as no surprise, and in the light of this new body of evidence we understand that it will now be up to the English Crown Prosecution Service to consider very carefully what, if any, action they will take for the prosecution of John Hogan for murder and attempted murder in the UK, as justice has so far not been done.”

She added: “The Greek court made little attempt to establish the facts surrounding Liam’s death and did not even call known eyewitnesses.”

The Crown Prosecution Service has previously said there was “no reason to believe” that Mr Hogan would face any charges — whatever the outcome of today’s verdict.

Today the CPS said it would consider any evidence sent to it by the police.

Giving his verdict today, the coroner said: “The facts were abundantly clear in that the children were seen to be pushed off the balcony, objectively an unlawful act.

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