00:02A still grieving mother spending another day listening to evidence about the day her son died.
00:07Three days ago it was my son's birthday, his 17th birthday, and instead of having him home with me, I
00:17had to go and visit him at his grave.
00:20Georgie Burt's son, Zane Mallor, was one of six children who died when a jumping castle was blown into the
00:26air by a dust devil at the Hillcrest Primary School in 2021.
00:30Today, the inquest heard evidence from the jumping castle's operator, Rosemary Gamble.
00:35Last year, Ms. Gamble was found not guilty of failing to comply with the health and safety duty in relation
00:40to the accident.
00:42Ms. Gamble became emotional as she described seeing the dust devil lift the jumping castle into the air, saying,
00:47It was so fast. It was there and it wasn't. It was like as you blinked, it disappeared.
00:53When I looked at it, it reminded me of the scene in The Wizard of Oz with the house going
00:58up.
00:59Ms. Gamble said only four pegs were provided with the jumping castle, despite it having eight anchor points.
01:04But she said she did not find it strange or make inquiries with the manufacturer.
01:10When asked why she wouldn't use eight pegs to anchor the castle, Ms. Gamble said,
01:14Because we got the four pegs with the jumping castle. I assumed four pegs was the minimum or adequate.
01:20Ms. Gamble is expected to continue giving evidence to the inquest tomorrow.
01:24Ms. Gamble said only four pegs was the minimum or adequate.
01:25Ms. Gamble said only four pegs were the minimum or adequate.
01:25Ms. Gamble said only four pegs were the minimum.
01:26Ms. Gamble said only four pegs were the minimum.
