Update | Girl, 15, dies in fall from Repulse Bay tower; parents arrested for ‘ill-treatment’

The parents of a 15-year-old girl who jumped to her death from a luxury apartment building in Repulse Bay today were arrested on suspicion of ill-treating their two daughters.

The arrests of the girl’s British father, 57, and Filipino mother, 53, were made after police investigating the death of the teenager discovered that the two sisters had never gone to school.

“The two girls did not go to school since they were born in Hong Kong. Investigations showed they only went to a private tutorial centre to study,” a police source said.

Crime-squad officers are still investigating why their parents did not apply for the necessary documents for the girls or send them to school.

It is understood that the younger sister is now being taken care of by friends of her father.

The daughter’s father, Nick Cousins, 57, is understood to be the managing director of Jardine Lloyd Thompson, one of the city’s largest insurance brokers.