Pool tragedy girl ‘kind role model’
A SCHOOLGIRL who drowned alongside her brother and father in a Spanish swimming pool was a “wonderfully kind, caring pupil”.
Comfort Diya, nine, is remembered as a “role model for all her peers” by Jo Marchant, her headteacher at Windrush Charlton primary school in south-east London.
The youngster, brother Praise-emmanuel, 16, and their father Gabriel Diya, 52, all drowned in the Costa del Sol pool.
Mr Diya, a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Charlton, was described as a “loving husband and devoted father” by members of his church. Mother Olubunmi said all three could swim and blamed a problem with the pool’s pump for the tragedy.
But a Club La Costaworld spokesman yesterday said her claims were “directly at odds with the findings of the police report”, which “confirmed the pool was working normally and there was no malfunction of any kind”.
Last night lawyer Javier Toro, representing the family, said Olubunmi and daughter Favour would fly back to the UK overnight.
He said: “They obeyed all the rules relating to that pool.”