‘A brilliant guy’: tributes to holiday Briton feared drowned after rescuing his son

Aran Chada is feared to have drowned saving his teenage son during a family boat trip on Lake Garda. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

Tributes have been paid to a British man who is believed to have drowned in Lake Garda in Italy after diving in to rescue his son.

Aran Chada, a 51-year-old sales director from Leicestershire, is thought to have had a seizure when he leaped from a boat into the water.