Two-year-old who fell in pond dies

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George Bostock and his brother Harry were found in the water minutes after they went missing from their large gated home in the Staffordshire village of Tean on Monday evening.

Harry was released from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire on Wednesday, but George was put on a life support machine.

Staffordshire Police confirmed that George had died.

The boys were found in a pond at the back of a house near the family home in Breach Lane following a desperate search.

On Wednesday, their parents Berdine and James Bostock expressed their "sincerest thanks and gratitude" to those who helped rescue them, including father-of-two Craig Lazenby who pulled them from the water and performed CPR on the pair.

Mr Lazenby, a property developer who lives in a caravan on a plot next door to the Bostock family home, told on Wednesday of the panicked search for the twins.

The 37-year-old said he screamed as he spotted them in the pond, in the garden of neighbour Pauline Dalmas, adding: "George seemed to have been in the water for about three or four minutes. Long enough to stop breathing. They had both stopped breathing."

Mr Lazenby said he didn't know the exact chain of events which led to the boys wandering out of the gated property and across the road but praised their parents, adding: "Children are children, they will go where they shouldn't go, it's as simple as that...You couldn't find two more protective parents of children anywhere."

The couple have another child, five-year-old daughter Ellie, he added.