Brit traumatised after saving kids from drowning denied compensation
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 @ 1:32 PM
A BRITISH tourist who saved two small children from drowning in his Menorca hotel pool has asked for compensation as his holiday was 'ruined' by the post-traumatic stress.
Steven Tartt, 32, from Seaforth, near Liverpool dived into the pool when he realised a seven-year-old boy and a girl of six were drowning, and pulled them out.
But according to the Liverpool Echo, the rest of his time at the Victoria Playa Hotel on the Santo Tomás beach was spent suffering recurring nightmares about seeing the children die because he was trying to run to save them but was unable to reach them.
As a father of two children himself, Steven has found this very distressing and says he needed another week's holiday to recover.
A lifeguard was reportedly on duty at the time and did not respond when he saw the children in trouble, resulting in his being fired.
Tartt says he was in such a state that when he returned to the UK, he had to be signed off work for another week, meaning he lost money as he is self-employed.
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