Safety measures at pool where boy drowned ‘borderline’ – inquest

Managing director of the park Henry Vernon told the hearing there were no lifeguards for the pool under normal operating conditions because its risk assessment carried out under health and safety executive guidelines concluded they were not required.

Mr Vernon said a photograph Robin’s father Cemal Caliskan had seen showing lifeguards at the pool on the park’s social media pages was from 2017 and it had taken him 30 minutes to scroll back to find it himself.

The Caliskan family were on the first day of a short camping holiday, when they decided to go swimming at about 16:30 BST on 31 July 2023.

Anne-Marie Jameson, a health and safety officer at Cornwall Council who investigated the incident, said there were no legal requirements for lifeguards, that policies and procedures had been followed and no enforcement action had been taken.