03:13 EDT, 27 January 2021
A mother has spoken out about her pain over the death of her son from carbon monoxide poisoning - saying the tragedy was preventable.
Justine Walker said her son Jesse Samuel, 12, had decided to shower in a temporary bathroom at their holiday house near the town of Haast, on New Zealand s south island, when tragedy struck on October 10, 2018.
Ms Walker, from New Zealand, found her eldest child s body on the bathroom floor half an hour later, the hot water still running.
The bathroom was fitted with a gas hot water unit, which she explains had been installed incorrectly, that allowed carbon monoxide to build up to deadly levels.