Sonny Ferry News Today

1/1 YORK Rescue Boat is to get a new lifeboat - and will name it after a teenager whose death in the River Foss spurred his parents to raise funds to buy the boat. Spirit of Sonny is set to be delivered by the end of the year and will go operational once volunteers have undergone the necessary conversion training. Sonny Ferry, 19, of Rutland, drowned in April 2019 at the end of a night out, and rescue boat crew located his body near Blue Bridge. The following week, his par...

Inquests are to be held next year into the deaths in York’s rivers in 2019 of, from left, Joe Rainham, Sonny Ferry and Steven O’Neill, pictured with his partner Beth Merry QUESTIONS left hanging over the deaths of three people in York’s rivers in 2019 may finally be answered next year. Senior Coroner Jon Heath has confirmed that inquests will be held in 2021 into the deaths of Sonny Ferry, Stephen O’Neill and Joe Rainham. A spokeswoman said the inquest concerning the death of Mr O...