Wesley Akum-Ojong, 19, jumped from a bridge into the water alongside other students while wearing full academic dress after heading to the Port Meadow beauty spot following his final exam.
Wesley Akum-Ojong, 19, leaped from the bridge but did not make it out the waterAn Oxford student drowned in a river after jumping in to celebrate the end of his first-year exams as part of a tradition known as 'trashing'.
Wesley Akum-Ojong , 19, jumped from a bridge into the water alongside other students while wearing full academic dress after heading to the Port Meadow beauty spot following his final exam Read More Pictured: Oxford University student, 19, who drowned in river while celebrating the end of exams One friend, named only as Student A, told police how Mr Akum-Ojong had finished his last exam at 5.30pm that evening in June. Mr Graham read extracts of her statement in which she described how 'lots of students walked to Port Meadow following their final exams covered in 'confetti and powder' before jumping into the river to 'wash it all off'.
Students called the Porter's Lodge at Brasenose College to see if Mr Akum-Ojong had returned home, then dialled 999. Student A and a friend then set off along the bank in search of the teenager.A second student, referred to as Student B, told how she was on the bridge at the same time as the tragic student. She told police she spent about an hour swimming after jumping in and 'found it hard to understand how someone could've missed Wesley being in distress in the water.
The campaign points out that 'Littering as a result of 'trashing' is illegal'. It warns that anyone who throws, pours or sprays substances after their exams were liable to a £150 fine for breaching the university's Code of Discipline.
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