Teenager dies after speedboat accident on Greek island of Paxos

A British teenager has died after an incident involving a speedboat off a Greek island.

Toby Finnett, reported to be the son of Aon oil executive Paul Finnett, was killed off the island of Paxos.

Mr Finnett was driving the speedboat when 15-year-old Toby fell off the back and became caught in the propeller blades, The Times reported.

It is thought that the boat had run into rough seas about half a mile south of the island's port town of Gaios.

The Finnett family, said to hail from Littlehampton in West Sussex, are understood to be currently living in Houston, Texas, where Mr Finnett works as a managing director for the energy company.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "Foreign Office staff are supporting the family of a British child following his death in Paxos, and are in contact with the Greek police about the incident."

He is one of a number of Britons to die on holiday this year.

Over the weekend Thomas Channon, from Rhoose, near Barry in Wales, was celebrating the end of his A-Levels at the Spanish party resort when he fell from a raised walkway at the Eden Roc apartment complex in south west Mallorca.

His body was found by a gardener.

Last month 20-year-old Thomas Hughes, from Wrexham in north Wales, also died after falling from a walkway in Magaluf.

He was staying at a nearby hotel and investigators say he may have mistaken Eden Roc for his own accommodation.

In April, 19-year-old Natalie Cormack, from West Kilbride, Ayrshire, was also killed in Magaluf while trying to climb from one balcony to another.

She had been working in a bar in the resort, and Spanish police believe she may have been trying to get in to her flat after forgetting her keys.

Press Association contributed to this report