A fundraising page to four 'princes' who died in a freezing lake has raised more than £10,000 in a matter of hours. Jack Johnson, 10, passed away after bravely trying to save a 11-year-old boy, and two boys, aged eight and six, who also perished in Babbs Mill Lake, in Solihull.
It has now emerged one of the boy's 'frantic' dad's waded into the lake with a dog walker to try and rescue the boys before emergency services arrived. Firefighters and police then entered the chilly waters with one officer punching through the ice to reach the boys and pull them from the lake on Sunday afternoon.
Jack and the 11-year-old boy were pronounced dead that day while the eight-year-old died on Monday. Yesterday police confirmed the six-year-old boy who had been in a critical condition had also lost his fight for life bringing the tragic death toll to four.
