Community Reporter at the Shropshire Star.
Two Telford heroes –one who risked his own life to prevent a suicidal man jumping to his death and one who resuscitated a baby whose heart had stopped – have been awarded with national life-saving honours.PC Mark Bates and Rhys Llewellyn have both been handed awards for their acts of bravery and selflessness from the Royal Humane Society and received personal praise from Andrew Chapman – the Society's secretary.
Police said later they believed if the man had jumped when Mr Llewellyn was clinging to him, he would also have been pulled off the bridge. The incident happened in the early hours of the morning on December 29, 2022, when PC Bates and a colleague rushed to the scene to find the father trying to revive the baby.
“Rhys undoubtedly put his life on the line in his battle to stop the man falling and at the same time calming him down and talking him in to abandoning his plan to jump from the bridge.
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