Costa del Sol: Hotel operator dismisses mother’s claims fault with swimming pool led to deaths

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Costa del Sol hotel where a pastor and two of his children drowned in a swimming pool has denied claims from his widow that something was “wrong” with the pool in which they died. Despite dismissing Ms Diya’s claims, the hotel operator said: ”Our sympathies remain with the family at what we understand must be a stressful and desperately upsetting time for them.” British swimming pool engineer Tony Reddin, who has worked in Spain for 30 years, branded the tragedy “an accident waiting to happen”. Mr Reddin, 60, added: “That’s where the main drain is, at the deepest part of the pool, and I think that’s what the problem was at Club La Costa.” But the Guardia Civil report said its underwater specialists “conducted several tests on the pool water purification and recycling system, which included engines and valves, as well as a dive to collect possible traces of evidence”. Deaths in the Philippines after drinking bad coconut wine in Philippines, authorities say “Likewise, the bodies did not show any signs indicating bumps or scratches which would have been produced by anything connected to the pool’s operating system.” Meanwhile, Mr Diya has been remembered as a “loving husband and devoted father” by members of his church in southeast London.