A coroner has concluded that an 11-year-old girl was unlawfully killed after she drowned at a waterpark in Berkshire in 2022.
Kyra Hill died after getting into difficulty in a designated swimming area at Liquid Leisure near Windsor while attending a birthday party on 6 August 2022.
Senior coroner Heidi Connor ruled there were gross breaches of health and safety measures at the park which contributed to her death.
The breaches related to the depth and visibility of the water and the absence of an emergency plan and risk assessment, she found.
An inquest at Berkshire Coroner’s Court heard how the schoolgirl was found more than an hour after emergency services were alerted and was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead.Breaking
Kyra Hill died after getting into difficulty in a designated swimming area at Liquid Leisure near Windsor, Berkshire, in August 2022.
A coroner has concluded that an 11-year-old girl was unlawfully killed after she drowned at a waterpark in Berkshire in 2022.
Kyra Hill died after getting into difficulty in a designated swimming area at Liquid Leisure near Windsor while attending a birthday party on 6 August 2022.
Senior coroner Heidi Connor ruled there were gross breaches of health and safety measures at the park which contributed to her death.
The breaches related to the depth and visibility of the water and the absence of an emergency plan and risk assessment, she found.
An inquest at Berkshire Coroner’s Court heard how the schoolgirl was found more than an hour after emergency services were alerted and was taken to hospital, where she was pronounced dead.The inquest heard there were no signs warning of deep water at the leisure park.
Despite various sharp drops of up to 4.5m (14.7ft) within the swimming zone, the only signs relating to depth said “danger shallow water”.A 17-year-old lifeguard managed to reach the point where Kyra disappeared but staff at the centre are only qualified to perform “surface-water rescues” – not underwater ones.
The inquest heard evidence of how there was a 10-minute gap between the first and second searches for the youngster in that part of the lake.
Although a manager attended rapidly, 37 minutes passed between Kyra struggling and 999 being called
