Moment ‘hero’ neighbour dashes across street to catch little boy after spotting him climbing out of an upstairs window onto a bay roof
- Landing Bojang saw the boy, dressed only in a T-shirt, climb out of window
- He alerted his sister but decided he could get there faster than she could
- Landing jumped out of his own window and over his garden gates to reach boy
This is the moment a quick-thinking neighbour leaped into action to rescue a little boy who had clambered out of a first floor window and was perching precariously on a bay roof.
Landing Bojang, 30, caught the boy, who was wearing only a T-shirt, after spotting him climb out the window of a house across the road in south London on July 3.
Landing, who was upstairs in his own home, shouted at the little boy, who he thinks is three years old, to go back inside, but the child did not do so.
Landing asked his sister to alert the boy’s mother but, he said: ‘I thought by the time she would get to the door it would be too late.’
Instead, Landing leaped from his own window onto a single-storey roof, jumped into his garden, scaled his garden fence and then dashed across the road to catch the boy.
Landing Bojang, 30, saw the boy, believed to be around three, climb out a window onto the roof of his house in south London
Video filmed from Landing’s house starts with the little boy lowering himself feet-first out of the window.
Landing comes into view, scrambling down to the ground and pointing out the boy to his sister. The boy climbs out onto the roof and crouches there, holding on to the window sill by one hand.
As Landing runs across the road a woman passerby spots what is going on and rings the doorbell to alert they boy’s mother.
Meanwhile, Landing climbs up on a storage box to reach the child just in time, and carries him down to his mother.
He said: ‘When I got there he jumped into my hands and the mum came down. She was shocked, she said “I’m so sorry, thank you so much.” ‘
Landing reaches up to catch the boy as a passerby knocks on the front door of the house
When the mother came down Landing’s brother Sana said she was very shocked and thankful for what Landing has done
Landing’s brother Sana, who shared the video, said: ‘Just posting this today to show my brother Landing who is always the hero in our house being the hero of our street.
‘He saw a neighbour’s child dangling out of the window this afternoon and he did not hesitate to jump off our roof onto the garden and jumping the garden gates into busy traffic.
‘He ran just in time to catch him.’
Sana added that the child is fine and the mother was very shocked and thankful for what Landing has done.