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Pool deaths mum: I want ‘accident’ investigat­ed

Her lawyer could set up new probe

- BY MATTHEW YOUNG m.young@mirror.co.uk @MatthewYou­ng7

Caroline with model boyfriend Lewis tive investigat­ions have confirmed the pool was working normally and there was no malfunctio­n”. Police blamed “the lack of expertise of the victims when swimming”.

But Mr Toro said: “It’s very rare for three people to die in the centre of a swimming pool – especially in the case of a tall, hefty man. Something must have happened apart from a simple error or simple accident. “Clearly the death of three people at the same time in a pool makes it evident that something very strange happened. It’s an event that must be studied.” Mrs Diya was reportedly due to fly home over the weekend with daughter Favour, 14. Flowers and cards were yesterday left at the Diyas’ home in CLOSE FAMILY Olubunmi with Charlton, South East her pastor husband Gabriel London, as friends and family paid tributes. A childhood pal from Nigeria, Elizabeth Moses-Mullard, 47, said: “I can only keep my thoughts and prayers with her.”

Mr Diya’s Facebook account lists Gabriel as a pastor at Open Heavens London, a Christian religious group based in Charlton.

THE mother whose two children and husband died in a freak hotel pool drowning could launch a “parallel investigat­ion” into the tragedy.

Grieving Olubunmi Diya is not satisfied the trio died in a “simple accident” as authoritie­s in Spain’s Costa Del Sol insist.

Mrs Diya’s daughter Comfort Diya, nine, son Praise-Emmanuel Diya,16, and husband Gabriel Diya, 52, died on Christmas Eve at the Club La Costa World in Fuengirola.

She said in a statement all three could swim, “something was wrong” with the pool and they were somehow “dragged into the middle” of the water.

Her lawyer, Javier Toro, said different engineers could be brought in for a “parallel investigat­ion” after police said their findings point to a “tragic accident”.

Hotel operator CLC World Resorts and Hotels has said Mrs Diya’s claims are “directly at odds with the police report”.

In a statement it stressed police findings made it “clear their exhaus

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