A total of twenty summonses have been served on three companies a year after teenager Faye Grundy died in a jet-ski accident.

The companies - Prestige Leisure, Queenford Water Ski Club and Lake Estates Watersports Ltd - are all part of the holding company of Queenford Lake Watersport Centre, based on the lake near Berinsfield where the 17-year-old died a year ago.

The summonses were served by South Oxfordshire District Council on Friday (July 31) following year-long investigations by its environmental health service.

They all relate to health and safety matters.

Faye, from Benson, who would have been 18 last Sunday, died on August 9 last year after falling from a jet-ski into the path of a speedboat during a family celebration on the lake.

The council's assistant environmental health manager, Jon Payne (correct), said: "During the investigations of this fatal accident last year, the council came to suspect that there were considerable deficiencies in the safety arrangements at the lake, which have now resulted in this action being taken.

"The summonses essentially relate to the safety on the lake, the actual design of the lake and the supervision and the training that is given. The investigations have been carried out since August 9 last year. "It has been a long investigation into the likely causes of the accident and quite an involved thing to get the case together."

The owner of Queenford Lake Watersport Centre, Stuart Ely (correct), said he did not wish to comment at this stage.

The first hearing of the case is due to take place before Thame magistrates on August 18.

Faye's mother, Mandy Jones, of Crown Lane, Benson, did not wish to comment.

The Crown Prosecution Service decided in March not to bring charges against Faye's uncle, Tony Gee, who drove the jet-ski which Faye fell from.

Queenford Lake Watersport Centre was given planning permission in April for safety work on the lake, including separating it into three sections for different watersports, using earth causeways.

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