Police formed human chain to reach boys who fell into frozen lake, inquest hears
· 07.07.2023 · 18:27:27 ··· ··· Friday ·· 5 (5)
Evening Standard Police officers formed a human chain and entered a freezing lake against medical advice to try and save four boys who had fallen into the icy water, an inquest into their deaths has heard.
Brothers Samuel Butler, six, and Finlay Butler, eight, their cousin Thomas Stewart, 11, and Jack Johnson, 10, had been playing on the frozen Babbs Mill Lake, in Kingshurst, Solihull, near Birmingham on December 11 2022 before the ice fragmented and they fell through.
An inquest at Birmingham and Solihull Coroner’s Court in Birmingham on Friday heard emotional family tributes to the four boys, who died in hospital after they were rescued from the water by firefighters.
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