Guernsey woman saved from drowning by two girls

Twelve-year-olds Juliette and Lillia saved Sue Norreys (centre) from drowning in Havelet Bay

Two girls in Guernsey are being thanked after their quick actions saved a woman's life.

Sue Norreys was flipped over and knocked unconscious when a ship passed by Havelet Bay while she was swimming before 12 year olds Juliette Broad and Lillia swam to her rescue.

Juliette said: "I dived in and swam maybe three or four metres out and I flipped Sue over and then, because it was so choppy, you needed to make sure her head was held up above the sea."

Ms Norreys said it was "an incredible thing to have done".

Juliette said: "Lillia was at her body and I was at her head and we were holding her up, shouting for people to come and get her because it was quite difficult for us to bring her back on her own."

Lillia said: "She was like groaning and she was really pale... she had blue lips. And I heard someone on a call with 999.

"The lady was just like not waking up and I heard people giving chest compressions and stuff like that."

Ms Norreys was taken by ambulance to hospital after the incident on 31 July and spent a week in hospital and was put into an induced coma because she had swallowed so much water.

Ms Norreys: "My daughter Amelie is the grateful one because... [she] might not have her mum anymore.

"It's an incredible thing to have done."