By
Press Association 2021
Christopher O'Malley
A hotel porter who placed a bag of ashes in a cupboard, sparking a fatal fire, has been sentenced.
Two men died in the blaze at the five-star Cameron House Hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond on December 18 2017.
Christopher O’Malley, 35, admitted breaching Sections 7(A) and 33(1)(A) of the Health and Safety at Work Act at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on December 14.
At the same court on Friday, he was sentenced to a community payback order, supervised for 18 months, comprising 300 hours of unpaid work.
More than 200 guests were evacuated from the building during the fire, including a family of two adults and a child who were rescued by ladder and taken to hospital. They were later discharged.