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Sunday, April 28, 2013

England ( Two guests were found dead in Hotel pool - Down Hall Country House Hotel )



12:29PM BST 28 Apr 2013

The bodies of the pair were discovered on Saturday evening at the four star Down Hall Country House Hotel in Hertfordshire.
Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating the deaths, which are currently being treated as “unexplained”.
The two guests, from the London area, were found shortly before at 7.35pm in the unsupervised swimming pool.
A Police Community Support Officer outside the gates of Down Hall Country House Hotel (Martin Rose/Eastnews.co.uk)
Hotel staff and paramedics tried to revive them but in vain and both were declared dead at the scene.
Police and hotel management declined to say where any one else was believed to be in the pool at the time.
The hotel, in Hatfield Heath, near Bishop’s Stortford, describes itself as “one of England’s most established country house hotels”.
It is housed in a 781-year old Italianate mansion set in 110 acres of woods and parklands.
Double rooms cost around £149 a night
A spokesman for the hotel declined to comment on the incident and post mortem examinations in to the cause of the deaths will be held tomorrow.
A spokesman for Essex Police said: "Detectives are investigating the deaths of two guests at a hotel at Hatfield Heath.
"Officers were called to Down Hall Country House Hotel in Matching Road at about 7.35pm on Saturday April 27 following reports that a man and a woman had been found under water in the hotel's swimming pool.
"Hotel staff and ambulance crews tried in vain to revive the man and woman but both were later pronounced dead at the scene.
"Officers from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are investigating and are treating the deaths as unexplained at this stage.
"The man who was in his 30s and the woman, who was in her 20s, are believed to be from the London area.”

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