An inquest has heard how a one-year-old boy drowned during a family fishing trip after he was left alone for just one minute.
Initially, the family thought Melvin may have been hiding in nearby woods.
Melvin’s father Bikash desperately searched the area alongside DC Barratt and PC Jeremy Horner, who had both been on patrol nearby when the alarm was raised.Bikash, a lorry driver, told the hearing: ‘He was just below the surface and was camouflaged by the tall reeds. ‘He looked normal to me, just as beautiful as he always did. I said [to paramedics] take him to a warm place.’At Salisbury Coroner’s Court, coroner Ian Singleton ruled the death as accidental.‘Melvin was with his family visiting the trout fishery in the afternoon, he was left unattended for a short while.‘On the evidence, it’s not possible to determine the precise sequence of events that led to him being found in the water.
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