Man, 47, found dead in swimming pool at £1.3m mansion in Surrey

A MIDDLE-aged man has been found drowned in the swimming pool of a £1.3million mansion in a sleepy Surrey village.

The 47-year-old, named locally as Gareth Rees, was discovered floating in the pool in Churt after reportedly suffering a heart attack while cooling off on Saturday.

An ambulance, first response car and an air ambulance helicopter were scrambled to the village but sadly he couldn’t be saved and was declared dead just after 3pm.

It is understood the mansion belongs to Gareth’s brother – with horrified family members discovering him lying motionless in the pool.

A Surrey Police spokesperson said: “Officers were called by South East Coast Ambulance service to a property in Churt, near Farnham, shortly before 4pm on Saturday 3 August, following the untimely death of a man.

“A report is being prepared for the coroner, however at this time there is not believed to be any third party involvement.”

The tragedy comes just days after Dominic Hamlyn, 24, drowned at his parent’s £3million home in Crundale, Kent, on July 25.

Cambridge Masters’ graduate Dominic sunk to the bottom of his family’s pool following suspected cardiac arrest at his brother’s 21st birthday party.

His dad Peter, a world-famous brain surgeon, said Dominic had swam two lengths before he drowned.

Paying tribute, he added: “There is no mystery, there were no drugs.

“He was swimming in his swimming trunks, almost sober. He completed two lengths and then sank to the bottom.

“Why did he die? He was a superb athlete competing in both rugby and rowing at Cambridge.

“It is called Sudden Death in Athletes or sometimes Sudden Athlete Death – SAD. It is a rare often fatal cardiac syndrome. What the footballer had and survived. Not our beautiful, beautiful boy.

“We are broken. If he is to be remembered it is as a hero and one of the world’s helpers.”

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