Members of a fitness group in WA's north have been given police bravery awards after they saved a young child from an alleged attempted drowning by his father last month.
Three local women – Shona Langfield, Gemma Burrow-Smith and Natalie Love – who were in an outdoor fitness class nearby witnessed the incident."We were meant to be there that day," she said."We didn't think about what we were doing, you just had to do it," Ms Burrow-Smith said.The child's mother attended the ceremony to thank the women for saving her son.
"Bravery is a really big thing, a quality that for most of you on that day was something very frightening that most people in their everyday lives would never come across," she said. The 26-year-old Nickol man is facing a string of charges including one count of attempted murder, two counts of assault with intent to commission a crime and one count of reckless driving in relation to the incident.