AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Newport boy helped save his friend's life after he carried him to safety following an horrific accident.

Young Kyron Stanworth, from Agincourt Street, Crindau, sprung into action after his friend Josh Cavanagh, 9, fell onto a shard of glass and pierced his neck as the boys played near industrial estate on Argyle Street on Saturday morning.

A large amount of blood began pouring from the one-and-a-half-inch wound that cut Josh just a quarter-of-an-inch from his jugular vein.

Quick-thinking Kyron, 8, removed his black jumper and applied pressure to the wound to stem the blood flow as Josh screamed in agony.

He began to guide his closest friend the 200-metre distance to his mother's house on Albany Street as the Crindau pupil grew weaker from the pain and shock.

Fifty metres from raising the alarm, Kyron was forced to gather Josh in his arms and carry him the rest of the way.

Josh's mother Chrissie, 34, described the moment she heard Kyron's desperate kicks against her door.

"There was so much blood. Both of Josh's t-shirts and Kyron's jumper were saturated with it."

"Josh was grey and I thought he was going to die. I'm so proud of what Kyron did to help save him. I don't know what would have happened without him."

After attempting to stop the blood, Mrs Cavanagh took her stricken son to the Royal Gwent Hospital, where nurses told her Josh would have died if the glass had entered his jugular vein.

His wound was glued together by doctors who also gave him butterfly stitches.

Brynglas Primary pupil Kyron said: "I thought he was going to die. I don't know how I carried him. I knew what to do with my jumper because I have seen it in films."

Josh added: "We are like cousins really. I said thank you to him for carrying me home."

Janine Stanworth, Kyron's mother said she was "ecstatic" with the way Kyron reacted.

Grandmother Jan Stanton, 53, added: "He thought Josh was going to die in front of his eyes but he saved him."