Take care when using gas cookers

I WAS grieved to read that an inquest into the deaths of two elderly women in Co Donegal in September 2009 revealed the deaths were most likely caused by a defect in a Beko Flavel model gas cooker.

An inquest into the death of my boyfriend in Macroom, November 2008, revealed that a defect in a New World model gas cooker was the most likely cause of his untimely death.

In both circumstances, the victims operated the cookers with the grill door closed which resulted in lethal levels of carbon monoxide, an odourless invisible gas, being released.