Two eight year-old boys were found at the side of the busy, six-lane East Lancashire Road in Liverpool after going missing from a school swimming lesson held at the sports centre of a nearby Secondary school.
The pair, who were pupils at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School in Fazakerley, Merseyside disappeared from a trip to a swimming pool in Croxteth in late February 2015. Police officers found them 30 minutes later on the side of the A580.
The children had apparently been at The De La Salle Academy, off Dwerryhouse Lane, for a swimming lesson. They asked to go to the toilet but didn’t return. The school has now launched an investigation.
A Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School spokesman said: “We are carrying out a thorough investigation into how two pupils were able to leave the De La Salle school site while on a school swimming trip. Staff raised the alarm within a couple of minutes of the pupils not returning from a visit to the toilet, and all necessary steps were taken to find them, including alerting Merseyside Police. We are extremely thankful that they came to no harm and would like to thank police officers for their assistance in finding them.
“Pupil safety is our top priority. We have not had an incident like this before and we will leave no stone unturned in making sure it never happens again.”
