Ceri Jenkins, 60, and the man he tried to save, Aaron Ritchie, 49, both died
A widow has paid tribute to her carer husband who an inquest heard jumped into a freezing canal to save an autistic man he was caring for who fell into an icy canal. Both men died.
Ceri was academically gifted, like his father, and had a scholarship to study at Oxford University where he obtained a ‘very good degree’, the inquest was told. “If Aaron had got into difficulty Ces wouldn’t have thought twice and would have jumped in to try and assist because he would think that’s the right thing to do,” said Mrs Jenkins. The court heard no 'direct evidence' had been uncovered to explain how the two ended up in the water.
Mrs Darbyshire said Aaron’s mother died in 2007 and he was moved into supported accommodation. He felt ‘comfortable’ around people he knew, she said. Mrs Darbyshire said her nephew would sometimes run off when he felt ‘giddy’ but had learned not to cross a road without his carer. She said, however, he had ‘no sense of danger’. He would ‘more or less always’ respond to an instruction from his carer, she said.
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