Police close investigation into deaths of RCCG Pastor Gabriel Diya & 2 children who drowned in Spain

Spanish police probing the deaths of a British pastor and his two children in a pool at a resort on the Costa Del Sol have closed the investigation.

Gabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel, 16, drowned on Christmas Eve at the Club La Costa World in Fuengirola. A police spokesman described it as a freak accident and put their deaths down to a lack of swimming ability. But Gabriel Diya's wife, Olubunmi, wants the investigation to continue and is 'not satisfied' their deaths were a 'simple accident'. She previously said in a statement all three victims could swim and she could seek further investigations, her lawyer has said. Mrs Diya, from Charlton, south east London, also claimed 'something was wrong' with the Spanish hotel pool after her little girl's swim cap was found in the pool pump by police divers.

But today Spanish police handed the conclusions of their initial report to a magistrate and the findings will later be made public, according to the BBC. Javier Toro, a lawyer acting for Mrs Diya, said different engineers could be brought in for a 'parallel investigation' after police said their own findings point to the incident being a 'tragic accident'. Hotel operator CLC World Resorts and Hotels has said Mrs Diya's claims are 'directly at odds with the findings of the police report'. In a statement it stressed police findings made it 'clear that their exhaustive investigations have confirmed the pool was working normally and there was no malfunction of any kind'. An English translation of a Guardia Civil statement, released by the hotel operator yesterday, stated that tests had found 'no irregularity' in the pool's system. It said investigations indicated the accident was 'caused by the lack of expertise of the victims when swimming'.

But Mr Toro was quoted by the BBC as saying: 'It's very rare for three people to die in the centre of a swimming pool - especially in the case of a tall, hefty man.

Photos: U.K based Nigerian pastor, Gabriel Diya & 2 of his children drown at Costa Del Sol hotel, Spain.

New DETAILS surrounding Redeemed Pastor Gabriel Diya who drowned in Spain with his 2 children, emerge.