THE HEARTBROKEN mum of one of the victims of the fatal Cameron House Hotel fire has told of being left in the dark over his death.

Simon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, from London, were guests at the five-star venue on the banks of Loch Lomond when flames took hold just one week before Christmas last year.

More than 70 firefighters fought the blaze at the resort but one of the men died at the scene and the other died at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.

Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company.

Now, three months on from the tragedy, Mr Midgley’s mum Jane, from Nottinghamshire, described how she desperately wants to know “why my boy isn’t coming back home to me.”

She said: “I want to know why they couldn’t get out of that building and I want the whole world to know.

“Simon and Richard were both ­beautiful boys, the nicest you could ever meet.”

“Answers aren’t going to bring them home but we need to know the full facts of what happened,” she added, reports the Lennox Herald.

Thirteen weeks on, the luxury hotel remains closed and Police Scotland told the Evening Times that enquiries are still ongoing.

Glasgow Times:
Simon Midgley died in the blaze at Cameron House along with his partner Richard Dyson (Police Scotland/PA)

A notice on the venue’s website reads: “We would kindly ask all our guests and customers to bear with us as we work closely with the Fire Service and Police Scotland to establish the extent of the damage and to ascertain when we will be able to reopen.

“We will update this page as soon as we have further information. We thank you all for your patience and the very many kind messages of support.”

More than 200 guests were evacuated from the hotel on the morning of December 18 as the blaze caused significant damage to the roof.

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Three other people - a family of two adults and a child - were rescued by ladder from the fire and taken to hospital in Glasgow but were quickly discharged.

In the days after the fire, Scotland’s First Minister said any lessons from the investigation would be learned.

Nicola Sturgeon said: “There will be a thorough investigation into what happened at Cameron House and it is important that that investigation is allowed to run its course, but I can give an assurance that the Scottish Government, with our partners and indeed with the owners of Cameron House Hotel, will make sure that any lessons that emerge from that investigation are learned and fully applied.”