Y7 Hotels Ltd, the owner of Tiffany’s Hotel on the Promenade, has been fined £120,000 after Blackpool Council successfully prosecuted the company for two health and safety offences. Ten-year-old Jack Piper-Sheach from Lincolnshire suffered an electric shock in the hotel’s reception area in September 2023 and died in hospital four days later. The council’s investigation found that dangerous electrical installations had not been properly repaired despite being flagged in an inspection report three years earlier.
Preston Crown Court heard on 26 June that an electrical installation condition report from 2020 had already documented concerns posing a risk to guests and staff. Investigators established that while the hotel had carried out legally required inspections, the necessary remedial work was never completed by a competent electrician, nor was it documented or certified. No charges brought under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 related directly to the child’s death. Lancashire Police had previously found no criminal case to answer.
Following the council’s initial enquiry, the hotel’s director voluntarily ceased trading. The Health and Safety Executive then uncovered three more dangerous areas inside the building and served an Improvement Notice. The hotel was allowed to reopen only after providing a satisfactory electrical report in November 2023. An inquest held in February 2024 recorded the cause of Jack’s death as a hypoxic brain injury following prolonged cardiac arrest caused by electrocution.
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