Oven manufacturer Beko failed to tell trading standards about multiple deaths linked to cookers

Oven manufacturer Beko failed to tell trading standards about multiple deaths linked to its cookers, an inquest into five five carbon-monoxide fatalities has heard. Friends Richard Smith, 30, and Kevin Branton, 34, died in Saltash in November 2010, before husband and wife John, 90, and Audrey Cook, 86, died with their 47-year-old daughter Maureen in … Read more

Beko gas cooker killed at least five people from carbon monoxide poisoning

Ten people were gassed to death by cookers which emitted carbon monoxide when their grill doors closed, an inquest heard today. Maureen Cook, 47, and her parents Audrey, 86, and Alfred Cook, 90, died in their static caravan home in Camborne, Cornwall, in 2013.  Kevin Branton, 32, and Richard Smith, 30, died at their home in … Read more