Swimmer lay at bottom of leisure centre pool for five minutes as lifeguards 'stood chatting', trial hears

"The jury saw that after Mr Rodgers had swum two lengths of the pool underwater, he was midway through a third length when he pushed off the bottom, his head came above the water and then he sank to the bottom of the pool."

"At the time of the incident which led to Mr Rodgers' tragic death, Holden was in the chair and Monaghan was roaming but coincidentally, there was a change over with McVeigh and another lifeguard coming to relieve them."

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