THE mother of a diving instructor killed by a motorboat’s propellers says justice has not been done following the conclusion of her daughter’s inquest.

Madaline Cole, who was 25 and from Bodenham, was snorkelling with friends off the Malaysian coast in May 2013 when she was hit by a passenger boat.

This week’s inquest heard she suffered significant injuries to her lower limbs and torso but, when she arrived at a local hospital, no doctors were present.

An investigation carried out in Malaysia which went before a judge found that Ms Cole had been snorkelling outside the safe area marked by buoys and did not have a piece of equipment known as a ‘safety sausage’ to  indicate she was under the water.

However, this information contradicted with what Ms Cole’s father had been told after he flew out to Malaysia the day after the collision.

Bob Cole, a former Royal Engineer who served in the SAS, was told by Ross Makulec – Ms Cole’s boyfriend – that a marker had been wrongly placed where officials placed the point of the collision.

“We could see a marker which was clearly quite a way out from the buoy line,” Mr Cole told the inquest.

“It’s a third world country and they’re not used to health and safety and their regard for human life is not what we’re used to. Maddie wasn’t the first person to be hit by a boat there.”

Monday’s inquest was also told that many of the boats were driven at speed close to the shore.

Mr Cole added: “I watched that area for hours and noticed that the boat drivers have a lot of bravado and like to skim along the beach close to the buoy line.

“There is no need for them to go up to the coast.”

The Malaysian investigation confirmed that Mohd Azwan Bin Mohd was the man driving the boat.

He had dropped passengers off at a nearby resort and was travelling back from the jetty when he hit Ms Cole.

Mr Mohd said he pulled Ms Cole out of the water following the collision and took her to a health clinic some 10 minutes away.

Chief of police Kamsani Bin Hassan, conducting the Malaysian investigation, concluded that there was no criminal element and that it was an accident.

This was also the same verdict reached by Herefordshire Coroner Mark Bricknell – much to the disbelief of Ms Cole’s mum.

Speaking after the verdict, Jill Cole said: “I feel justice hasn’t been done and I don’t accept it was an accident.

“Two other people have been killed in that bay in a similar way.