Father of student who died of meningitis pays tribute to ‘kind-hearted’ son

Students receiving vaccines and antibiotics from medical staff in the sports hall at the University of Kent campus in Canterbury, as the number of cases of meningitis linked to an outbreak in Kent dropped as a campaign to vaccinate thousands of young people continued into a fourth day (Stanley Murphy-Johns/PA) - (PA Wire)

The father of a college student who died after catching meningitis has paid tribute to his “funny, sociable, kind-hearted” son.

Lewis Waters, who attended Henley College in Oxfordshire, was one of three cases reported in the outbreak, which also includes two school pupils in Reading.