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A three-year-old boy has died after being found face down in a neighbour's garden pond at the weekend.

Officers were called after the boy, named by police as Freddie Watmough disappeared from a house in Victoria Mews, Dover, on Saturday morning (23 May).

A Kent Police spokesman said:  "Police carried out a search of the area and found the boy in a neighbouring garden, face down in a pond."

He added: "An officer attempted emergency first aid and the boy was taken by ambulance to the William Harvey Hospital where he was sadly pronounced dead."

A police spokesman said the boy's death was not being treated as suspicious.

The boy's mother, Leanne Beardmore, father Philip Watmough and older sister Trinity said in a statement: "There are no words to describe how we are feeling.

"We can't even begin to imagine life without our little man.

"We love and miss him so, so much and would give anything to hear him, see him and feel him again."