A Manchester grammar school has taken action against a pupil after an 11-year-old boy was allegedly pushed into a frozen pond when he refused to walk over the ice for £20. The incident, which was reported to police, happened just 24 hours after a tragedy in the West Midlands which claimed the lives of four boys after they fell into an icy lake.
The victim was walking home from William Hulme Grammar School in Whalley Range, on Monday when he and a friend stopped to skim stones across a frozen duck pond in Alexandra Park.
The victim's father said: "A year 11 pupil, aged 16, from his school came up to them. He dared my son to walk across the ice on the pond, and offered him £20 to do so. He refused."
