Two bodies recovered after three kayakers go missing in River Tyne
L‘When Anthony got stuck on the river his friends had to help him out. We were all worried. They have had no luck – his wife Louise has just lost her job as a teaching assistant too
‘I think Darren thought about taking Anthony sometime with the kayak but I think Louise put her foot down. If Darren was still here he might have gone out with his dad and his brother.’
Torrential rain over the weekend had made the Tyne near Hexham, in Northumberland, faster, deeper and more dangerous than normal.
Emergency services were scrambled when the men did not return home to South Tyneside on Sunday evening and three bodies were found hours later after a search involving coastguards, police, firemen and an RAF helicopter.
They got about half way when tragedy struck. They are believed to have been last seen at around noon on Sunday at a location near Corbridge known as Devil’s Water, a tributary of the river.
He said: ‘They were heading downstream. I didn’t notice anything wrong and couldn’t hear what they were saying to each other. They would have gone down to a gorge, where the water is very fast flowing, and that would have been extremely dangerous.’
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