Oxford student dies after no-one notices him drowning in river during celebration

Mihaela Măncilă

A gifted Oxford student drowned after jumping into a river alongside 200 others as onlookers filmed on their phones. Wesley Akum-Ojong, 19, jumped into the river at the Port Meadow beauty spot on June 21 this year to celebrate the end of his first-year exams as part of a tradition called ‘trashing’. The first year politics, philosophy and economics (PPE) student was filmed leaping from the bridge with others and footage shows him resurfacing but he did not make it back to shore. It wasn’t until

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