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Jamie Lopez & Kate Lally

'Kind and loving' boy, 4, dies in unsafe holiday swimming pool

A four-year-old boy died in an unsafe swimming pool at a Lake District holiday park, a court was told today.

Luca, from Newport in south Wales, had been on holiday with his father Gavin Hurle, stepmother Donna Southcott, brothers Gabriel and Oliver, and other family friends when the tragedy occurred.

Luca Hurle drowned in a pool which was deeper than guidelines recommended at a caravan site near Grange-over-Sands.The pool also had inadequate safety signs where measures “failed to protect non-swimmers from moving into deeper water”.

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