British dad, Filipina mom nabbed after daughter falls to her death in HK

HONG KONG — The British father and Filipina mother of a teenager in Hong Kong have been arrested after she plunged to her death from an upmarket apartment block.

Police said there was “no suspicious element” in the 15-year-old girl’s fatal fall, but arrested both her parents on suspicion of “ill-treatment or neglect of a child or a young person” without giving further detail.

The teenager plunged from the 21-storey apartment block in Repulse Bay in the early hours of Tuesday morning, police said.

Her father, 58-year-old Nick Cousins, is the managing director of the Hong Kong office of British multinational Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT), one of the world’s leading insurance brokers. The girl’s mother is a 53-year-old former helper from the Philippines, according to local media.

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