Your tributes to canal rescue hero (From News Shopper)

Your tributes to canal rescue hero

1:15pm Monday 11th June 2007 in

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LEIGH Pitt drowned after jumping into a canal in a bid to save a nine-year-old-boy who had fallen in.

Firefighters and police were called to the canal in Whinchat Road, Thamesmead, at 5.20pm on June 7 after reports of a man and child being in the water.

London Ambulance Service pulled Mr Pitt from the water but he was pronounced dead at Lewisham Hospital at 6.42pm that day.

The boy, Harley Bagnall-Taylor, of Whinchat Road, was taken to hospital, believed to be suffering from hypothermia.

He has since been released.

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