Brothers Samuel and Finlay Butler, their cousin Thomas Stewart, and Jack Johnson all died after being pulled from the icy water in Solihull on Sunday.
Brothers Finlay and Samuel have been named as two of the children who died after falling through ice at Babbs Mill Park in Kingshurst, Solihull on Sunday.Two brothers were among four boys who died after being pulled from an ice-covered lake.
Thomas’s older brother called him a “lively little soul” with “a big heart”, also paying tribute to his cousin Fin and saying “gonna miss you little man”. The tragedy has sent shockwaves through the tight-knit community of Kingshurst with a carpet of flowers now laid at a makeshift shrine which has grown up around a tree, near the lake.
The tragedy has united the city’s rival football clubs, Aston Villa and Birmingham City FC, in grief, with representatives of both clubs turning up unannounced at the scene, to lay flowers. One West Midlands Police officer, a student response officer on one of his first operational rotations, suffered mild hypothermia trying to punch through the ice to reach the children.
Paying tribute to school pupil Jack, Cieran Flaherty, St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School headteacher, said: “Jack was a loving, bubbly pupil with a heart of gold.“He was a joy to teach and a child who we are all so very proud of.
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