A man "threw" a boy 100ft off a cliff after he allegedly tried to rape his 13-year-old sister, a court has heard.
"That afternoon, the boy fell 100 feet from the cliff edge onto the concrete under walk below. Miraculously, he did not die, but was very seriously injured and had to be airlifted to hospital in London. "Mr Boulding and his friend walked down the steps to the concrete underpass on the beach. About 10 minutes later Mr Boulding heard a noise. Mr Boulding looked up to the top of the cliff and saw a figure on the wrong side of the fence.
Ms Johnson continued: "The defendant spoke to several people at the scene, civilians and members of the emergency services. He was not consistent in his account of what had happened. Because of the "extremely high impact trauma" the boy suffered, he does not have any memory of the fall itself, the jury heard. The prosecutor went on: said: "The child described the cliff top and seeing the beach below. He remembered looking down and seeing how steep it was.