Beko should have acted sooner over cooker danger, coroner finds

Cornish inquest finds deaths of five people in two incidents were accidental but criticises firm

A leading appliance brand should have acted more quickly to stop the sale of cookers linked to 18 deaths in the UK and Ireland, a coroner has concluded.

Geraint Williams said Beko was too slow to react when it learned that people had died and tests revealed that its cookers could cause potentially fatal buildups of carbon monoxide.