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| Hotel death father will be freed | Hotel death father will be freed |
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| A father who killed his six-year-old son by jumping with him from a hotel balcony in Crete is to be released from a psychiatric unit. | A father who killed his six-year-old son by jumping with him from a hotel balcony in Crete is to be released from a psychiatric unit. |
| John Hogan, 34, of Bradley Stoke, near Bristol, was cleared of murder and in May the High Court quashed an inquest verdict of unlawful killing. | John Hogan, 34, of Bradley Stoke, near Bristol, was cleared of murder and in May the High Court quashed an inquest verdict of unlawful killing. |
| His daughter Mia received broken bones in the fall from the balcony. | His daughter Mia received broken bones in the fall from the balcony. |
| A court in Athens ruled John Hogan is fit enough to fly to Britain and can leave as early as next week. | A court in Athens ruled John Hogan is fit enough to fly to Britain and can leave as early as next week. |
| Mr Hogan's solicitor Kerstin Scheel told BBC News: "In theory he could return as soon as today". | Mr Hogan's solicitor Kerstin Scheel told BBC News: "In theory he could return as soon as today". |
| He will be free to travel the world, if he chooses, in search of the daughter he tried to kill Brian Chandler | |
| Reacting to the news, Liam's family said the prospect of Hogan's return to the UK was "simply horrendous". | |
| Brian Chandler, stepfather of Liam's mother Natasha Visser, said: "The prospect of John Hogan returning after just 16 months of a recommended minimum - by a very lenient Greek Court - of three years detention in a psychiatric unit is simply horrendous. | |
| "He will, if current press is correct, return, having pushed two children off a fourth floor balcony, as a completely free man. | |
| "As he has no conviction of any kind against him, he will therefore be free to travel the world, if he chooses, in search of Mia, the daughter he tried to kill." | |
| Hogan has been trying for a year to get back to Britain but two previous appeals to magistrates in Athens were rejected. | |
| However, the court ruled that he had made sufficient psychiatric progress over the past six months and would be allowed to return home. | However, the court ruled that he had made sufficient psychiatric progress over the past six months and would be allowed to return home. |