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A 13-year-old boy who could not swim drowned when he jumped from a rope swing over a lake during last summer's heatwave, an inquest heard.
Kyron Hibbert's friends tried to save him, but the teenager disappeared under the water of a former clay pit where swimming is banned on July 29 last year.
His body was recovered from Stewartby lake in Bedfordshire in the early hours of the following morning, an inquest at Ampthill heard today.
Kyron, from Stewartby, was with six friends when he took a turn on the rope swing about quarter seven in the evening.
Kyron Hibbert, 13, drowned when a rope snapped over a lake in Befordshire on Friday 29th July last year
HIm and six friends were playing in the summer heat at Stewartby lake
He said been sitting with his girlfriend while other friends swung on the rope and jumped into the water. They had been ending so far out that they could not touch the bottom.
One girl said: 'No one forced him to go in. He took off his shoes and socks and swung out once. He took his shirt off and pulled his trousers down. We were all laughing. '
Another said, also in a statement that was read by the coroner, 'I pushed him and he continued to swing. He let go about 7 feet from the land.
'He came back from under the water. He
