£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.
Parents still 'coming to terms' with child's pool death
The parents of a seven-year-old girl who drowned in a swimming pool have said they are still "trying to terms with what happened", after the leisure centre operator was ordered to pay fines totalling £190,000 today.
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.
Michelle's parents, Mark and Sian Gellard, said in a statement:
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