THE dad of a five-year-old girl has spoken of his horror after his daughter fell fifteen foot - out of her bedroom window.

Little Natasha suffered a collapsed lung and bruising to her head after the fall on to the concrete below earlier this month.

Father-of-five Paul Lesauteur, 35, said he was alerted when he heard their neighbour screaming out their daughter’s name, and to their horror, found Natasha had fallen from the upstairs bedroom window.

The incident occurred at their home in Howe Circle, Ringland. At around 8.15am on Saturday, June 20, Natasha had just woken up and was playing in her bedroom while her father Mr Lesauteur and his partner, 23-year-old Charlotte Rendle, were watching television downstairs.

Mr Lesauteur said: "She’s lucky she never suffered any life-threatening injuries,” Mr Lesauteur said. “She can’t sit down properly and she struggles to go to sleep after what happened.”

The fall comes as the dad claims he repeatedly warned Newport City Homes about the dangers of his children’s windows not being fitted with locks before the incident, and claimed the housing association refused to do so due to fire regulations.

“I told them one day one of them will fall out and seriously injure themselves unless they put locks on the windows," he added.

“I’m just hoping Natasha recuperates, makes a full recovery, and life goes on as normal.”

A Newport City Homes spokeswoman said they followed guidance set out in the Welsh Housing Quality Standards.

"This guidance states that ‘dwellings should not have windows fitted with locks with an automatic locking action in rooms used for sleeping’," the spokeswoman added.

"Resident safety is incredibly important and we fit opening restrictors to windows for this reason. In this case, we have met our required safety standard however it's deeply concerning that a child has still been hurt. We will be looking into this further."