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A heartbroken mum is desperate for answers after her teenage son drowned at Salford Quays - and has warned people not to go swimming in open water this summer in fear of more tragic deaths.
Vicky Waugh's 16-year-old son Kalen was cooling off with friends at the popular spot among scores of others when he got into trouble last July. Almost a year on, the single parent said her life is on hold as she waits for an inquest - due to take place on July 17 - a year and a day after student Kalen died.
She said: "I just don’t understand how it happened. There was that many people in the water, I don’t understand how he’s got into danger without someone noticing and being able to get him."
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Vicky is angry that similar tragedies still happen each year - with at least 12 young people dying in rivers and reservoirs across the UK since May 1 already. She has called for the authorities to do more to warn the public about the dangers of open water swimming.
"They say that they’ve done things but if you have then why’s it still happening frequently?" she told the Mirror. "It’s not like it’s once in a blue moon, it’s every f***ing year."
Referring to young people getting into trouble while swimming in recent weeks, she added: "It's all I see on my newsfeed. Go and buy a massive swimming pool and put it in your garden. Have fun at home, you don’t need to be going into open waters.
"You need to remember that it’s not as safe as it looks."
Vicky, 33, who works for a taxi firm, said she raised Kalen alone from when he was a toddler. They lived with her brother - who did not wish to be named - in Eccles.
"He’d actually got himself dressed quite good considering he had no
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My word, that was a hell of a month for Mancunian gigs, wasn't it?