The prosthetic leg was reportedly poking under a cubicle (Picture: Alamy)

An entire class of primary school children was evacuated from a swimming pool – because a prosthetic leg sticking out from underneath a cubicle was thought to be a paedophile.

The alarm was raised when staff noticed the foot poking out as the eight- and nine-year-olds got changed following a swimming lesson.

Teachers immediately took the children out of Larkfield Leisure Centre in Aylesford, Kent, but were stunned to discover that the foot was actually part of a prosthetic leg.

The incident happened here at Larkfied Leisure Centre (Picture: Google)

A disabled man had innocently left it in his cubicle while he went for a swim.


‘We had 60 children at the pool that day, although they weren’t all in there at once,’ Kerry Thomas, head of Kings Hill Primary near West Malling, told the Daily Mirror.

‘One of the members of staff had seen it, and we quickly moved the children out, and everything was dealt with in accordance with school policy.’