A FORMER Thanet schoolboy has saved two children from drowning in Thailand.

Tim Nickoll, 27, lives at the Highway Inn in Bangkok, where he teaches English. He has telephoned his father, Ken, to tell him how he pulled two six-year-old girls from a swimming pool.

Mr Nickoll said: “He lives in a four-star hotel with a pool used by local people. He and a friend were sitting beside the pool when a small Thai boy came up to them and started jabbering.

"Tim could only make out the word “water.” He then saw two figures six feet deep in the pool. He and his friend dived in and pulled the girls to safety.

They started resuscitation which, Mr Nickoll said, his son has never learned. He said: “All he knew, he had picked up from watching programmes like Baywatch, but it worked. Both girls were taken to hospital, and will make a full recovery.”

Mr Nickoll junior attended Cliftonville Primary School and later Hartsdown Technology College and has also taught in Korea. His mother, Carol, who lives in Broadstairs, said she was very proud of him.