Leisure boss slapped with six-figure fine for not having a lifeguard on duty when boy, 6, drowned in pool
Little Aidan Yule was dragged lifeless from the water and died in hospital
A HOLIDAY park has
been slapped with a six-figure fine for not having a lifeguard on
duty when a six-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool.
Loch Earn Caravan Parks admitted health and safety
breaches considered “a significant factor” in the death of little Aidan
Yule who was dragged lifeless from a pool.
CCTV footage showed that he was submerged for 51 seconds before being found unconscious.
Aidan, from Dundee, his mother, and three siblings had been playing at the park three hours before tragedy struck.
He had been in the toddler pool with his brother but left to join his mum and sisters in the main pool
Aidan was holding onto a foam float, but lost grip of it and was submerged.
Other daytrippers tried to revive the boy with CPR and Aidan was rushed by ambulance to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.
He was pronounced dead four days later.
Loch Earn Caravan Parks Limited, which owns the Seafront Leisure Centre and the Red Lion Holiday Park, admitted contraventions of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 at Forfar Sheriff Court on today.
There were no lifeguards on duty and staff were not trained in CPR.
