Boyaged4 found dead in Tenerife hotel pool

A four-year-old British boy has drowned in a “packed” family swimming pool at a Tenerife hotel.

The youngster, named as Presley Stockton, from Wigan, was staying with his extended family at the four-star Hotel Paradise Park Fun Lifestyle in Los Cristianos.

A spokesman for the hotel said the boy was in the busy family pool when he was spotted by a hotel lifeguard who pulled him out at around 3:30pm on Wednesday.

The spokesman said: “He was in the family pool. It was packed, the pool was packed with children and families. It is not a deep pool. There were two lifeguards on the spot. One pulled him out, the other one came over and they were both doing procedures. Two to three minutes later an ambulance came, there were lots of ambulances, five or six doctors were trying to resuscitate. When they found out everybody was then saying: ‘My goodness how can this happen?’ One gentleman said, ‘I was half a yard away from him.’

“He could not swim and had no arm bands on. It is an absolute tragedy.”

Mike Jolley, believed to be the child’s grandfather, posted on Facebook: “Whirl wind Presley has been taken from us, Our family is broken hearted, fly high my little Angel, you was one in a million.”

Local police are investigating, with statements being taken from witnesses and CCTV cameras checked.