Teenager in canal fall while walking home from school as mum 'found out on Facebook'
dailyrecord.co.ukA mother was left worried sick when she realised her 16-year-old son was late coming home from school but she could never have imagined that he was actually fighting for his life in a horrific accident.
Deborah Hunt found out through a Facebook post that her 16-year-old son had not been kept back in school but had actually been pulled from the Manchester ship canal, the Mirror reports.
The 53-year-old mother said: “I honestly thought I’d lost him. I screamed at my husband to get to the locks as soon as possible.” Unbeknownst to Deborah, Ethan had been returning home to Irlam from St Antony's Roman Catholic School in Stretford on January 10 when he stumbled upon a flooded pathway.The 16-year-old walked out onto a docking jetty to get around the flood but a combination of poor lighting and heavy rain caused him to accidentally step off the edge into the water.
Deborah explained: “He decided that because the path was flooded, he would use the little jetty thing to cut out the section of the flood".“There were no lights on there so he basically couldn’t see where he was going.
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