Anglers save boater

IT WAS anglers who came to the rescue of a woman who had fallen from her boat near Days Lock on the Thames.

The two anglers were fishing near the lock (pictured) when they heard cried for help, so rushed to the boat to find a man holding a woman's head above water between the boat and the high bank, Alan Tilbury reveals.

Unable to lift her

The woman was unable to climb back onto the boat, and the elderly man, her husband, was unable to lift her, but only hold her head above water to save her from drowning.

The lock was not manned at the time and the two anglers, though some distance away, were the only people able to help, which they did by dragging the woman up the bank out of the water.

All the anglers could see were her arms coming out of the water, that they grabbed to haul her out.  By then the air ambulance, paramedics, police and fire crews had arrived, but it was all over. The paramedics treated the woman, but she had no need to be taken to hospital.