A woman has told of how her husband saved a man from drowning after two men fell out of their boat in Weybridge.

Stephen Harvey, 43, and wife Rebecca, 49, of Ferry Lane, Shepperton, were alerted to 'distressed' calls by a fisherman on the Weybridge side of the Thames after two men appeared to fall into the river at 11.40pm on Monday.

Mrs Harvey said: "We were just getting ready to go to bed and I heard noises outside, I heard someone in distress. It must've been a fisherman on the other side of the bank saying 'someone's in the river, call the police'.

"My husband ran outside and grabbed our boat keys and this huge torch we have while I went and called the emergency services.

"He got in the boat and went to where it was happening. There was an empty boat with no one in it but with the engine on.

"He threw a life ring to a man in the river and dragged him into the boat. He was clutching his friend's trainer.

"The boat drifted and was tied up so it was safe. They were calling his name and a few people by then were on the other side helping.

"They took [the other man] to hospital when the ambulance came. The emergency services were searching for hours."

The body of a 35-year-old man was pulled from the river at about 4.20am by dive teams.

Surrey Police has not responded to requests for an update.

Mrs Harvey added: "It's not uncommon for people to fish in the night because they love it so much.

"We don't know why they were in the river or what they were doing.

"The awful thing is we woke up the next day, it was really sunny and there was no tell-tale sign that something happened."

Mr Harvey, who runs Oasis estate agents in Staines with his wife, is no stranger to saving lives after he woke a lock-keeper sleeping next to the Weybridge Mariners Club after it caught fire several years ago.