A LONG sobering list of children in the UK who died directly, or indirectly, from bullying...
for example...
http://www.bullyonline.org/schoolbully/cases.htm
Ayrshire: Fifteen-year-old Peter Sinclair falls through ice and dies. He was playing truant to avoid bullies. His mother forgave the bullies and invited them to his funeral.
PETER SINCAIR is my big brother and the above is not the truth...
This is the truth....
A schoolboy drowned yesterday after falling through an icy pond on a golf course.
And a brave fireman had to give up a daring rescue attempt because of freezing conditions.
Peter sinclair was playing with his thirteen-year-old pal John Wales John Wales when he fell through the ice. They were trying to fish golf balls from the 12- foot deep pond.
It was claimed the Ayrshire teenagers ignored warnings from golf course workers to get off the thin ice.
Peter, of Landsborough Place, Stevenston, was standing on the edge of the pond prodding a stick through the ice when he fell in.
He tried to climb on top of the ice and when that failed, he attempted to swim for the island in the middle.
But when Peter didn't surface, his pal John - who lives in the same street - ran to raise the alarm.
Firefighter Charlie Bell dived into the icy water at Auchenharvie Golf Course, Stevenston, to try to save the boy.
His crew had arrived at the scene within minutes. He tied a rope to his waist and edged onto the breaking ice in a desperate bid to reach Peter.
The fireman, from nearby Kilwinning, was then forced to wade up to his neck in freezing water trying to find the schoolboy with his hands and feet.
He said: "It was only about a minute after he had gone. You always hope there is a chance.
"I was up to my neck about 40 foot out but I had to come back. The cold was just overwhelming."
Last night, Peter's mum, Janette Sinclair, was too distressed to talk.
She and her three-year-old daughter Carla and Peter's stepfather
a man who has married one's mother after the death or divorce of one's father
were being comforted by family and friends .
Neighbour Connie Dunn, 21, Janette's best friend, wept: "The two boys were inseparable. When I saw John being brought back this morning I thought `what have they been up to now?'
"But they are not bad boys. They just get up to mischief like any other teenagers and they are always trying to find ways to make money."
Peter was a pupil at Auchenharvie AcademyAuchenharvie Academy in Stevenston, while John attends St Andrew's Academy, Saltcoats.
No one was at home at the Wales family home last night.
The pond, built above disused mine workings, is known locally as The White Wife because local legend has it a woman drowned there centuries ago.
Peter's body was found just a few feet from the island he scrambled so hard to reach.
After a search of more than five hours, a police driver made the grim find at 3.20pm in freezing water and near zero visibility.
A small group of onlookers watched in silence as the grim end to the tragedy unfolded.
Just a few hundred yards away pupils at Peter's school were finishing their last classes of the day.
A police spokesman said: "In cold water like that the heart rate slows down and up to an hour and a half of being under the ice we could still have saved him.
"But undercurrents from the mine workings at the bottom of the pond and the time it took to get the underwater unit down from Glasgow meant it took longer than expected to locate him."
Last night it emerged that a golf course worker TWICE warned the two boys to get off thin ice.
He said: "I did my best at trying to get the two boys to clear off but they wouldn't listen.
"That pond is a magnet for kids trying to find balls - danger or no danger. They sell them for about 20p each and we are always having to chase them away.
A greenkeeper added: "We ran as fast as we could but there was nothing we could do.
"I felt so sorry for the boy who just stood crying at the water's edge."
Senior policeman at the scene Superintendent John Young said "This was a terrible tragedy but my personal feeling was that this was another tragedy that could have been avoided.
"If there is a message that has to come from this it is to show people that they have to stay away from any water whether it is frozen or not."
A spokeswoman for North Airshire Council said that last year parents of all pupils at Auchenharvie Academy had been sent letters warning about the dangers of frozen lakes.
Health and Safety Executive officers will visit the scene today and launch a full investigation.
Incredibly ANOTHER youth clambered onto a second frozen pond on the course - knowing that a boy had just died.
A council official revealed the boy, aged about 16, claimed he was just testing the ice to see if it would take his weight.
"I was totally dumdstruck," the official told the Record.
TWO schoolboys - 13-year-old Alan McKay and Iain Allan, 12 - drowned in a flooded quarry on St Nicholas golf course, Prestwick, Ayrshire in September 1992 while looking for golf balls.
That is the truth next time get the facts right!!!!
