Hotel blaze families get inquiry role
THE families of the couple who died in the Cameron House Hotel fire will be invited to give written statements to a fatal accident inquiry.
Relatives won’t give evidence directly about the deaths of Simon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, from London.
At a preliminary hearing yesterday, Crown counsel Graeme Jessop said he will invite them to provide “pen pictures” of the pair and the “impacts their deaths has had upon them”.
The inquiry is due to start at Paisley Sheriff Court on August 15 and is to last around three weeks.
The hotel’s operator was fined £500,000 and night porter Christopher O’Malley given a community payback order over the fire in December 2017.