UK couple's deaths in Spanish villa jacuzzi likely caused by electrocution, coroner suggests

Two adults (Thomasina Tobin, 51, and Patrick Tobin, 48) died in the incident; their two teenage children with special needs discovered the bodies and are now being cared for by family in the UK.

On a summer holiday in Cullera, Spain, Thomasina and Patrick Tobin — a London-based couple of Irish and New Zealand origin — lost their lives in a jacuzzi at a rented villa, their teenage children the first to find them gone. What began as an investigation into mechanical or chemical failure has settled, through a coroner's inquiry, on electrocution as the likely cause — with Patrick apparently dying in the act of trying to save his wife. Their deaths ask a quiet but urgent question about the invisible dangers that can inhabit the ordinary pleasures of travel, and about the gap between the saf

UK couple's deaths in Spanish villa jacuzzi likely caused by electrocution, coroner suggests

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