Police were called to Galley Hill Road in Swanscombe, Kent, at 2.55pm on Wednesday following a report of concern for a swimmer in a pond.
Officers attended along with the Kent Fire and Rescue Service and the South East Coast Ambulance Service, where the body of a teenage boy was recovered.
His death is not being treated as suspicious at this time and a report will be prepared for the coroner.
It comes as a string of youngsters died in water-related incidents over the past few days as the UK saw record-breaking temperatures for May in parts of the country.
One of them was 12-year-old Junior Slater, who died while swimming with friends in the River Ribble at Ribchester on Tuesday.
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The first reported incident involved Declan Sawyer, 15, whose body was recovered after he got into difficulty after entering Swanholme Lakes in Lincoln on Sunday.
On Monday, a 13-year-old boy died after getting into difficulty at Leadbeater Dam in West Yorkshire, while the body of a teenage girl was recovered on the same day at Kingsbury Water Park in Warwickshire.
The following day, the body of a teenager had been recovered from the water at Rother Valley Country Park, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
A body was also found by rescuers looking for a teenage boy who was last seen swimming at Hawley Lake on the Hampshire-Surrey border on Tuesday afternoon.
Then on Wednesday, Cheshire Police said the body of a 17-year-old boy was found after he went missing in Pickmere Lake in Northwich.
On Sunday, a 72-year-old woman died after being pulled from the water at West Angle Bay beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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The following day, a man in his 60s died of cardiac arrest after entering the sea at Tregirls Beach in Padstow, Cornwall, to help two family members who were in difficulty, police said.
In Ireland, another teenager died while swimming in the sea at a beach in County Dublin on Sunday.
The RNLI warned of the "very real risk" of swimming in open water during the heatwave, with Steve Instance, the water safety lead for the charity, insisting it remains "very much winter temperatures" in UK waters.
About 8,000 customers in the Whitstable area were affected because nearby reservoirs were at a "critical level" due to "extremely high demand", said South East Water.
It said taps should start to run again later on Friday but supplies could be patchy over the weekend.
South East Water said another 7,000 households in Tankerton, Ashford and surrounding areas were also getting low pressure or an intermittent supply - with a further 7,000 at risk of some supply loss on Thursday.
The firm has asked people to stop using jet washers, hosepipes, paddling pools and sprinklers.
Matthew Dean, its head of operations control, said: "We are continuing to ask customers in supply to use water for essential purposes only - for drinking, washing and cooking.
"We have bottled water collection stations already set up and are monitoring."
Tankers have also been adding water into the network in areas that are struggling.
The problems have grown significantly since Monday when South East Water said about 250 properties were affected.
The firm said it planned for the hot weather but demand was still outstripping the speed at which it could treat and pump water to customers' homes.
It said 670 million litres had been used across its area on Bank Holiday Monday, 100 million litres more than average.
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South East Water boss Dave Hinton quit earlier this month, just a week after its chairman, following demands by MPs for a change of leadership.
Mr Hinton, who had been chief executive since 2020, had previously said he would take no bonus in 2026 following an outage late last year that left tens of thousands without water for two weeks in the Tunbridge Wells area.
A report by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said the company was "devoid of proper leadership" and "riddled with cultural problems".
Vickrum Digwa was convicted of murdering 18-year-old Henry Nowak by stabbing him to death with a Sikh kirpan ceremonial knife with an eight-inch (21cm) blade.
The 23-year-old told police he was the victim of a racist attack after he knifed the finance student five times in Southampton on 3 December 2025.
He also did not tell officers he had stabbed the first-year student with the Sikh kirpan, as officers arrested and handcuffed Mr Nowak.
The victim then fell unconscious and died from his injuries at the scene as officers tried to administer first aid.
Now the trial is over the case has been referred to the police watchdog - the Independent Office for Police Conduct - to investigate the officers' actions.
Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Robert France, of Hampshire Constabulary, apologised on behalf of the officers for being unaware of Mr Nowak's injuries.
He said: "I want to say that I am sorry that Henry couldn't be saved that night. I'm sorry that he was handcuffed and arrested in the moments before he lost consciousness."
Digwa was also convicted of carrying a bladed weapon in public, and his mother, Kiran Kaur, 53, was found guilty of assisting an offender by removing the weapon from the scene.
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The 23-year-old is set to be sentenced on Monday, while Kaur is to be sentenced on 17 July.
Under Sikh practice, a kirpan is carried in a sheath and must be worn in a holster. Unsheathing it for aggressive reasons violates the Sikh code of conduct.
It's legal to possess a kirpan for religious reasons in the UK, but restrictions apply. However, a blade less than 19in (50cm) is not covered by the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Offensive Weapons Act 2019.
In the lead up to the attack, Digwa was filmed by his victim telling him "I am a bad man" moments before the knife attack, which saw Mr Nowak - from Chafford Hundred, Essex - suffer a fatal stab wound to his heart.
Nicholas Lobbenberg KC, prosecuting, told the court that on the night of the murder, Digwa was wearing "an extremely large knife in a sheath openly displayed over his clothing" - a 8in (21cm) shastar, the Punjabi word for weapon or knife - as well as a smaller kirpan around his neck and under clothing.
Digwa told the court that Mr Nowak, whom he described as drunk, had racially abused him before punching him and knocking his turban off.
The court heard a post-mortem examination found that Mr Nowak suffered four stab wounds and a cut to his jaw, with two of the wounds to the back of his legs.
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Mr Lobbenberg said Digwa told a "wicked lie" to police about being a victim of a racist attack and that he "lied" by saying he had not stabbed Mr Nowak.
Police initially handcuffed Mr Nowak, and only started giving him first aid when he then collapsed before dying, the prosecutor said.
Digwa told the court he stabbed Mr Nowak to the back of his legs in self-defence after Mr Nowak threatened him and grabbed him by the hair.
He said he had not realised at the time he caused the fatal stab wound to his chest.
Digwa also claimed he asked his mother, who along with his father arrived at the scene, to hold his kirpan while he picked up his religious items which had fallen to the ground during the struggle.
The prosecution said Kaur took the kirpan back to the nearby family home where it was later found.
'I am a bad man,' defendant said
Jurors were previously shown a video of the incident, which was found on Mr Nowak's phone that was discovered in Digwa's pocket.
In the video, played to jurors, Mr Nowak can be heard saying "Hello car" and singing to himself before yawning, with the footage then cutting to show Digwa walking away from him.
Mr Nowak is then heard saying: "Innit bad man, what bad man. You're a bad man, say you're a bad man, go on."
Digwa replied: "I am a bad man."
The prosecutor also told the court that Digwa is "a man who likes weapons," had described the murder weapon in "loving terms," and that he "sleeps in a bedroom with an arsenal of weapons".
Weapon not a normal kirpan: Sikh Federation
In a statement after the conviction, the Sikh Federation said: "Henry's life has tragically been cut short by a moment of madness by an individual for which there can be no excuses".
It added: "If a kirpan or a bladed item is used aggressively in an act of violence, the defence under the law for a kirpan does not apply and it is deemed an offensive weapon.
"We understand in this case the weapon that may have been used was not the normal kirpan worn by fully practising Sikhs.
"This nuance is critically important and may not have been explained or understood by those asked to give evidence in this case."
Syrian Muhammad Sheikhi, 23, is accused of carrying out the alleged attacks in Falkirk during the early hours of 30 November 2025.
Sheikhi is said to have sexually assaulted one woman with intent to rape her in Kerse Lane and Bellsmeadow skate park.
Prosecutors also allege he attacked a second woman in Kerse Lane, close to the Hotel Cladhan where he was staying at the time.
Sheikhi, who came to the UK by boat, denies all charges against him.
On Thursday, Stirling Sheriff Court was shown footage of Sheikhi's police interview following his arrest later at the hotel on the morning of 30 November.
During the interview, which was held using an Arabic interpreter, he told the officers he had taken "pity" on one of his alleged victims after seeing her sitting crying on the side of the road.
He said: "She told me that she needs help to get home. She was crying, and she was wearing high heels and the straps were broken, they were snapped.
"When I saw her, we are human, so I took pity on her. I took pity on her, I took off my shoes. I gave her my shoes.
"I told her to contact someone to come and pick her up or arrange for something."
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On Wednesday, the court was shown CCTV footage from Kerse Lane showing the two walking side by side, with her wearing his shoes and Sheikhi in his socks.
The indictment alleges that, at one point during the journey, Sheikhi seized the woman and pinned her against a tree, before sexually assaulting her.
Sheikhi told police that when they reached her friend's house, she could not get inside, and the woman had been "so upset".
He said: "I was trying to reassure her, I said 'I'm not leaving you, I will stay with you until someone opens the door'."
He also said that he expected to be thanked for getting her home safely, stating: "I said to myself, 'you're doing something nice to people'.
"When I was walking to her address, I thought the guy she was talking to over the phone... I thought they would be thanking me for helping her, walking her home.
"To me, it was something like an act of kindness."
He said when his parents died in Syria, and nobody helped them, he pledged that "whenever I see a person in need, I will try and help them".
Sheikhi added: "Like in 2014, I joined the coalition to try to help against terror."
Sheikhi's lawyer, Paul Keenan, said on Wednesday that his client denies anything sexual "of any type at any time occurred on evening in question".
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During the police interview, Sheikhi also denied sexually assaulting another woman in Kerse Lane, insisting that she had approached him and initiated a conversation.
"She looked at me, and asked my where I was from," he said. "I told her I was from Syria, and she asked me for my number."
He said she took his phone, opened Snapchat, typed in her details, and then sent herself an emoji.
Asked whether he had hugged or kissed her, he said that she had hugged him, and that she might have kissed him as well, adding that he could not remember.
The charge alleges he also put his hands under her clothing and touched her buttocks, but he denied this, saying, "no, God forbid, no", and "nothing of that happened".
He also denied following her, stating: "I would never follow her.
"A lot of girls yesterday spoke to me, some of them asked for my number, stuff like that. That's okay for me, but for me to be chasing a girl? No."
The trial, before Sheriff Keith O'Mahony, continues.
The boy, from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, is accused of 22 sexual offences between 2022 and 2025.
He cannot be named because of his age.
The boy has been charged with 12 counts of sexually assaulting a female, three counts of assaulting a girl under 13 by touching, and one count of raping a girl under 13.
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He is also charged with one count of assaulting a female aged 13 and over by penetration with a part of the body/thing, one count of raping a girl aged 13-15, two counts of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of a child, and one count of possessing a prohibited image of a child.
The boy faces a further charge of possessing an extreme pornographic image or images.
He will appear at Wellingborough Youth Court on 23 June.