Janet Palmer pays tribute to her son Jack Palmer

Fifteen-year-old Jack Palmer from Holybourne has received a chief fire officer’s commendation for saving his neighbour’s life with a defibrillator.
His parents have a defibrillator at home and his father Brent Palmer trained him how to use it. On December 13 last year Jack’s neighbour Elaine Drake asked the Year 11 Eggar’s School pupil to get it because her husband Tony Drake had suffered a cardiac arrest.
Tony’s daughter Hatty dialled 999 and began CPR, then Jack used the defibrillator and took over CPR from Hatty until Alton firefighters arrived, before an ambulance took Tony to hospital.
Jack was presented with his award from Hampshire’s chief fire officer Sabrina Cohen-Hatton by assistant chief fire officer Ben Allen at Alton fire station on March 24.