THE teenager who drowned in Appleton Reservoir yesterday has been named as 16-year-old Temi Abimbola.
Emergency services were called to Appleton Reservoir, also known as Walton Reservoir, on Park Lane at 1.35pm yesterday following a call from a member of the public reporting a youth in the water who had disappeared below the surface for some time and failed to come back up.
A police spokesman said: "All emergency services attended and an extensive underwater search carried out, the body of a male youth was recovered.
"There are no suspicious circumstances and HM Coroner has been informed."
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