Cameron House manager watched porter put hot ash in plastic bag days before deadly blaze
dailyrecord.co.ukA Cameron House night manager was left “horrified” after watching a porter use a plastic bag to clear out a fireplace – days before the practice caused a fatal blaze which killed two guests.
Ann Rundell yesterday told an inquiry she challenged the staff member, asking ‘what the f*** do you think you’re doing?’ The 61-year-old was giving evidence in the second week of a Fatal Accident Inquiry at Paisley Sheriff Court into the deaths of Richard Dyson, 38, and his partner Simon Midgley, 32, who died following the fire at the five-star Loch Lomond hotel in December 2017.
It started after Renton night porter Christopher O’Malley emptied ash and embers from a log fire into a polythene bag, and then put it in a cupboard of kindling and newspapers.
Ms Rundell, who started working at the hotel in 1993 before leaving and returning in 1996, told how she was on shift in the early hours of Friday morning – three days before the blaze – when she spotted the night porter with a plastic bag filled with water.It was her last shift before the fire on December 18, 2017.She said O’Malley was “within earshot” when she spoke to the other porter about it at around 1.30am.“I was standing at reception doing computer work and I saw [him] with a bin bag.
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