A Scottish holiday park company has been fined £234,000 after admitting health and safety failings which led to the death of a six-year-old boy.
Aidan Sands, who could not swim, died in hospital from brain injuries four days after being submerged for just 51 seconds in the pool at the leisure centre at the Red Lion Caravan Park in Arbroath, Angus, in June 2011.
Health and safety officials at the Crown Office said the failure to have lifeguards in place was ‘a significant factor’ in the tragic death.
The park’s owners, Loch Earn Caravan Parks Ltd, based in Errol, Perthshire, admitted failing to carry out a suitable risk assessment, failing to ensure safety of people using the pool, failing to ensure adequate supervision and failing to provide sufficient information and training to employees.
Defence advocate Barry Smith said: "I am expressly instructed to tender on behalf of the company and all those associated with it the sincere condolences of that company and those people to the family of Aidan Sands."
