Mr Fitton said Mingo told a colleague to hammer two two-inch nails through the bathroom window when the pipe was installed in 2005, preventing it from opening as a solution to stop carbon monoxide being pumped into the room.
According to one of Mingo's colleagues, the defendant was "making his instructions up as he went along".
Hodge, said Mr Fitton, later agreed the boiler safe for use.
Mr Fitton added: "There is no documentation that Mr Mingo or Mr Hodge told the hotel of what they had done or the necessity of doing it."
Subsequently, when the hotel replaced its windows during a refurbishment in 2007, the new window could be fully opened.
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thisiscornwall on Facebook the fact the hotel then replaced the window woth an opening one then allowed the fumes in that killed the poor sod. the ones who got the blame for that were the gsr chaps, if the window had been left alone no issues apart from the wrong flue type, but fumes werent getting in to start!
