12 members of the Tendring Beach Patrol walked from Brightlingsea to Dovercourt in memory of Tom Petley.

TENDRING Beach Patrol paid a heartfelt tribute to a colleague who died suddenly.

Tom Petley was only 20 years old when he suffered a cardiac arrest in his sleep on April 21, 2022. ย 

Twelve members of the Beach Patrol team took on the challenge to walk the coastline from Brightlingsea to Dovercourt on September 9. 

The walk took 11 hours and covered a length of 31 miles, with stops at all patrol huts on the coast.ย ย 

In total, the group managed to raise more than ยฃ1,000 for Cardiac Risk in the Young.

Tendring Beach Patrol is raising further donations on their dedicated JustGiving page. 

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