If Taz-Zorb had used eight star pickets to secure the jumping castle it provided for the Hillcrest Primary School's activities day in 2021 it would have survived the wind event which claimed six children's lives, a hearing has been told.
The parents of the deceased children reacted with despair as engineer Roderick McDonald told the criminal proceedings against company owner Rosemary Gamble the jumping castle's anchorage system had already failed by the time the dust devil was directly over the inflatable device.
