Teenager Drowns While Fishing In South Wales

A teenager from Merseyside has drowned while on a fishing trip with his brother in south Wales.

Sam Capper, 15, is thought to have been washed away when a wave hit the rocks where he was fishing at a remote beach between Rhossili and Broughton Bay.

His brother, Lewis, dived into the water to try to save his younger sibling, and clung on to him until he was pulled from the water by an RAF rescue helicopter.

The brothers, from Birkenhead, had been fishing with two other friends when the accident happened.

Four lifeboat crews and an RAF rescue helicopter were scrambled. Sam was winched from the water while Lewis, 21, was pulled into a lifeboat reportedly suffering from hypothermia.

Sam was taken to Morriston Hospital, but later pronounced dead.

A family statement said: "Sam, who most people knew as Spud, was a unique, amazing, boy who touched the lives of so many people with his generosity, kindness and infectious laugh.

"Sam has left a gap in our lives and will be missed, not just by his family, but by everyone who knew him.

"Our only consolation in this terrible tragedy is that, at the end, Sam wasn't on his own - Lewis was with him, holding on to him tightly."

Stunned friends have since began paying tribute to the popular teenager on Facebook and Twitter.

One of his closest friends, David Moore, wrote: "Sam Capper was one of my true mates. He was so funny and amazing. You will be missed, sleep tight.