An Inverness dad is searching for a young “hero” who reacted quickly to help his six-year-old daughter after she slipped and smashed her head off a metal railing.
Leah Fraser was rushed to Raigmore Hospital after two boys helped her home and wrapped a jumper round her head to stem the heavy bleeding.
One of the boys, Cory Davidson, is just eight years old and lives close to the girl’s house on Ashton Road in Raigmore.
But her father, Alex Fraser, says he would like to find and thank the other boy who he believes is in his mid to late teens and may have been wearing a Sports Direct top, suggesting he could work there.
The 28-year-old said: “It could have been a lot worse if he was not there. The young lad has obviously got his head screwed on as he had the sense to wrap his jumper round her head. I am very appreciative of him, he’s a wee hero.
“I just want to extend a proper thank you to him and get his jumper back to him as well.”
Self-employed electrician Mr Fraser said the accident happened at the stairs by the Golden Bridge, next to a park in the Raigmore area, shortly before 6pm on Sunday.
It is thought Leah, who turned six yesterday, was out with friends but stayed out after they went home for dinner.
But eight-year-old Cory was nearby and tended to the girl following the accident, and a teenage boy thought to be passing by reacted by using his top to stem the bleeding.
The older boy asked Cory if he knew where Leah lived and the pair guided her back to the house.
Mr Fraser said he briefly thanked the boys before taking Leah into the kitchen, adding: “She was howling and was hysterical about it all and there was so much blood. I got a fright as I did not know what had happened to start with, and when when we got the blood off and saw it was a deep cut it was a bit panicky.”
Mr Fraser’s partner, Corinne Bain, drove Leah up to the hospital where medics glued her head wound, and she returned home at about 9.30pm.
Mr Fraser stayed at home to look after his two sons.
Images of Leah’s cut and the boy’s jumper have been shared more than 600 times on social media.
Several comments have been posted praising the boys’ efforts.
Catherine Fraser wrote: “What a wonderful deed for these boys to do. We very quickly criticise the young but really this shows how wrong we can be.”