Guests slammed death blaze Perth hotel’s freezing rooms in run-up to fatal fire
dailyrecord.co.ukA death-trap hotel where three people died in a fire had been slammed by guests for being too cold.Recent reviewers of the New County Hotel have claimed the facility’s heating was turned off, leaving it in a freezing condition.
The fire on January 2 took hold at about 5am in a top-floor bedroom. It killed three people and a dog and sent other guests screaming into the streets.The bodies of sisters Donna Janse Van Rensburg, 44, and Sharon McLean, 47, both from Aberdeen, and Keith Russell, 38, originally from Edinburgh, were found inside after the blaze.
One woman on review site Trip Advisor branded the hotel “Igloo Central”, claiming she and her grand-daughter had to wear outdoor clothes in bed.
Carly M wrote: “I honestly have never walked into a room in such a dire state, it was freezing cold, window left open.”Pam M stayed at the hotel, which she called “Igloo Central”, with her grand-daughter, 10, on December 10.She wrote: “We had a horrendous stay – the hotel was dark and dingy and unwelcoming.
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