Brothers Samuel and Finlay Butler, their cousin Thomas Stewart, and a fourth boy, Jack Johnson, fell through ice into Babbs Mill Lake on Sunday, 11 December.
Four boys who died after falling through the ice of a frozen lake where they were"playing" drowned, an inquest hearing has been told.
The four children were all in cardiac arrest when rescue teams pulled them out of the water and emergency services rushed them to hospital.Samuel, aged six, was taken to hospital in a critical condition, but died four days later, on December 14. Over the weekend, hundreds of people gathered for a vigil at a makeshift memorial near the scene to pay tribute to the boys.
An initial inquest hearing, held on Monday in Birmingham, was told three of the boys were rescued after 22 minutes in the water, while a fourth was pulled from the lake after 31 minutes. Senior Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull Louise Hunt described the circumstances as a"devastating tragedy", as she opened and adjourned the four inquests.
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