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Christopher Rogers: Witness recalls dragging swimmer from Armagh pool

Mr Nugent said that at one stage he was aware “one of the lifeguards had run quickly around the pool”.

He said the lifeguard seemed concerned and “started to bang the ladder with a pole”.

“I’m now aware his name is Cathal [McVeigh],” he added.

“I asked him, I think, will I check on him?

“I believe he said ‘check on him’. I swam towards him.

“I grabbed Christopher who seemed to be lifeless.

“I came up and shouted for help. I dragged Christopher to the surface. The lifeguard [Cathal McVeigh] jumped in.

“We pushed him out of the pool.”

A statement from the leisure centre’s receptionist Mary Conlon was also read to the court.

In it, she described attempts to save Christopher Rogers’ life.

“I phoned an ambulance and someone took the defibrillator to the pool,” she said.

“The ambulance arrived pretty quickly and the paramedics went to the side of the pool.

“The family were contacted and a young lad about 17 arrived, then the mother and then the father.”

In her statement, Ms Conlon said Christopher Rogers’ mother said “he always does this, he stays under water too long”.


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