A TEENAGE boy’s summer day out turned to tragedy when he drowned in a waterfilled quarry trying to swim across to meet some girls on the other bank, an inquest heard.

Conor McColl, of Broadway, Jaywick, and his friends had seen videos of the disused quarry in Bedfordshire on social media and decided to visit it on July 25.

When the four friends arrived, they found another eight teenagers already there, swimming and socialising.

After a couple of girls swam across the lake, 16-year-old Conor and two of his friends followed, but the swim ended in tragic circumstances.

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