Five councillors have pleaded guilty to health and safety charges after a disabled swimmer almost drowned in a leisure centre pool in East Ayrshire.
Ryan Deans, 25, had to be resuscitated after being submerged for almost two minutes before the alarm was raised at the Galleon Centre in Kilmarnock in 2023.
Councillors Iain Linton, Clare Maitland, Barry Douglas, James Adams and provost Claire Leitch were trustees of a company which provided leisure facilities at the centre at the time.
Another trustee who also pleaded guilty, Manpreet Bawa, is not a councillor.
Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard Mr Deans was a member of the Kilmarnock Jets swimming club which was taking part in a session at the Galleon when he got into difficulty.
CCTV showed he had been submerged for nearly two minutes before volunteers raised the alarm.
Services at the centre had been provided by the Kilmarnock Leisure Centre Trust which has since been dissolved.
Its trustees included SNP members Leitch, Linton and Maitland, plus Conservative councillor Adams and Labour representative Douglas.
In a separate incident at the centre in 2019, trustees were fined £10,000 after a six-year-old girl nearly drowned in the same pool.
