Father pays tribute to ‘kind-hearted’ son who died after contracting meningitis

The family of Lewis Waters, a sixth-form pupil at Henley college in Oxfordshire who died earlier this week after contracting meningitis, said they were ‘devastated’. Photograph: Sean Waters

The father of a college student who died after contracting 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 in Berkshire, which also includes two school pupils in Reading.