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Clockwise from left; The shocking moment a pensioner was kicked into the Mersey, teenage rescuers Ellie Hughes and Khloe Woods and the victim s lost pendant - which has now been recovered from the river IT was an incident that shocked the town, and indeed the nation. Warrington was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week after a pensioner was kicked into the Mersey last Sunday, April 25. The 74-year-old was enjoying the sunny afternoon by magnet fishing on the banks of the river close to Riverside Retail Park, opposite a small patch of land which is cut off by a lock and known as Monkey Island.
Teenage girls rescued elderly man from River Mersey by forming a human chain
An 18-year-old has been charged with assault by beating after the incident on the banks of the River Mersey in Warrington
15:11, 29 APR 2021
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Two teenage girls rescued an elderly man from the River Mersey by forming a human chain .
Girls who rescued man kicked into River Mersey made human chain to get him out
Cheshire police have now named an 18-year-old man who has been charged for assault relating to the incident in Warrington
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Ellie Hughes (left) and Khloe Woods, 14, who rescued an elderly man who the River Mersey (Image: UGC)
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