£190k bill for child's pool death
A leisure centre operator has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £190,000 after a seven-year-old girl from east London drowned in a swimming pool.
'Insufficient number' of lifeguards day of child's death
A court heard today that there were insufficient numbers of lifeguards on duty on the day, when a seven-year-old girl drowned in a swimming pool.
Michelle Gellard, from east London, died after she went swimming with other children at the Blackwater Leisure Centre in Maldon, Essex, on June 14, 2008, after attending a judo competition.
Two lifeguards were on poolside duty with a third arriving after the alarm was raised, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said.
One of the lifeguards retrieved her from the water with help from a swimmer but despite resuscitation attempts she was later pronounced dead at Colchester General Hospital.
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