Terrifying moment schoolboy falls through manhole into SEWAGE on family driveway after ‘workers leave it open’
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THIS is the horrifying moment a schoolboy plunged through a manhole into sewage after workers left it open, his mum claimed. Corey Walker, 12, screamed as he fell down the drain and clambered out with blood running down his legs. His "absolutely fuming" mother, Bethan Walker, alleged Thames Water employees failed to close the cover on the family's Oxfordshire driveway.
![[Corey was left bloody and bruised]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/fuming-mum-claims-thames-water-958543617.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
She had requested help from the company on December 16 after sewage started overflowing from the manhole. Workers arrived at around 7am the next morning, but Corey plunged down the manhole at 8.20am as they headed on the school run. Beauty therapist Bethan rushed her traumatised son to hospital as his wounds had been exposed to sewage.
![[Shocking CCTV showed the moment the schoolboy fell down]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/fuming-mum-claims-thames-water-958543524.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
She said it "breaks her heart" listening to her son's "poor little scream". "It's awful. It's just something that could have been so easily avoided if they'd have just done their job properly," the mum-of-one added. She said initially thought Corey was pulling a prank on her after he shouted "I've fell down a hole".
![[Mum Bethan Walker claimed Thames Water workers left the manhole cover open]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/fuming-mum-claims-thames-water-958543669.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
But as the youngster's screaming continued, Bethan rushed around the car and was shocked to see his leg bloody and bruised. She claimed the hole was "a good six, seven feet deep" and should have had some sort of barrier around it. "They genuinely probably did forget which I get, these things happen, mistakes happen. But the fact that somebody didn't do their job properly has resulted in a poor innocent child falling down and hurting himself," Bethan added.
![[The 12-year-old went to hospital to have his wounds cleaned]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/fuming-mum-claims-thames-water-958543529.jpg?strip=all&w=776)
