Cash gathered by friends of a boy who drowned in a swimming accident has been taken. The money was stolen from the youth centre he attended suffered a break-in, which was discovered on December 24. “It was going well and they were making a lot of money so it’s upsetting,” said Connor, a close friend of Aaron Burgess, who died last summer. The 14-year-old’s father, Jay Burgess, said: “I was devastated when Connor rang to tell me.”