Overview

• Companies House records confirm that Mo Chaudry stepped down and Laurent Eugéne Jacques Bruloy was appointed director on July 31 as Looping Group acquired Waterworld.
• A four-year-old was found unconscious in the lagoon area on August 4; lifeguards performed CPR before paramedics arrived and the child later died in hospital.
• Waterworld suspended operations after the incident and reopened to visitors on August 6.
• Staffordshire Police has opened a criminal inquiry and Stoke-on-Trent City Council is conducting a health and safety investigation, with authorities appealing for witnesses to quote incident number 460.
• M Investment Group said the sale increased its net worth to over £170 million and hailed Looping Group’s international leisure portfolio as securing Waterworld’s future.