Boy, 11, finds drowned five-year-old at Water Park

A HORRIFIED 11-year-old found a drowning victim in a lake while searching for his lost goggles in the water.

Charlie Dunn, 5, was found drowned at Bosworth Water Park in England.

A HORRIFIED 11-year-old is reported to have found a drowning victim in a lake while searching for his lost goggles in the water.

A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the incident and are being held in custody, The Sun reported.

Charlie Dunn, 5, was discovered at Bosworth Water Park in Leicestershire, England and rushed to hospital but tragically died, police said. A witness claimed the child drowned in a lagoon pool.

Sheena Thomas said her 11-year-old nephew was searching for his goggles when he felt the victim’s hair.

She wrote on Facebook: “My 11yr old nephew pulled this lil boy from the water after feeling his hair whilst searching for his goggles he had lost.

“This is properly something my nephew with never 4get...”

The parents of the boy who drowned looked on in horror as they ­recognised his Minion shorts as he was pulled from the lagoon.

Charlie’s step-grandmother Sharon Robinson, 50, said: “I’m so stressed out and just shocked by what’s happened.

“Charlie was my step-grandson. It’s my son Paul’s stepson and Paul’s girlfriend Lynsey in Charlie’s mum.

“He was a loving boy and was a typical five-year-old. He was funny, cheeky and loveable.

“He used to always give me cuddles and would ask me to help him with his homework.

“He loved his schoolwork and his school reports were brilliant. He was only on the first weekend of his school holidays.”

Charlie was at the water park with his mum, step-dad and his eight-year-old sister Rebecca.

Pregnant mum Lynsey Dunn, 28, and stepdad Paul Smith, 35, were later arrested by cops over the death of five-year-old Charlie.

“They’ve been there so many times before. They were just loading the car ready to come back and Charlie had asked his dad if he could go to the park,” Mrs Robinson added.

“The last thing Paul said to him was, ‘Yes, you can go to the park, but we are going home in a minute.’

“The park was in their view so they could keep an eye on him. He went with his sister, but for some reason he decided to go to the water.

“Paul shouted the kids back to go home, and Rebecca came back but Charlie didn’t. Paul started to panic and went to the park but Charlie wasn’t there.

“He ran back to the car and that’s when he saw a young boy being pulled out of the water.

“He knew it was Charlie because he was wearing Minion shorts.

“I was shopping at Morrisons and Paul called me and said, ‘He’s gone blue, he’s blue. He told me he was going to the park.’

“He’s beating himself up about it. Him and Lynsey will have to live with the guilt which is awful.

“They have a one-year-old daughter and Lynsey is three months pregnant. They were leaving because Lynsey wasn’t feeling very well.

“Charlie was given CPR and paramedics also used a defibrillator. On the way to the hospital, they managed to find a slight pulse.

“But they had to put him on life support, and they said he had suffered severe brain damage and that his quality of life would be very poor if he lived.

“Paul and Lynsey had to make the heart-breaking decision to turn the life support machine off.

“We’ve had to explain to his sister that Charlie isn’t going to be coming him. We’ve tried to diplomatically tell her.

“The police called me at 1am to tell me Paul and Lynsey had been arrested.

“I screamed down the phone saying it was the last thing they needed.”

“The whole thing is just horrendous.”

This story originally appeared on The Sun and was re-published with permission.