Holiday park child death

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

By JAMES COX

21st July 2016, 5:08 pm

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.

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Aidan Yule drowned in the main pool of a Dundee holiday park

Red Lion Holiday Park where the boy drowned in 2011

The tot, also known as Aidan Sands, was playing at the Red Lion Holiday Park in Arbroath, Angus, in 2011 when his head slipped under the water.
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.