Thomas Cook was given £3.5m pay out over the tragic death of two British children in Corfu
Thomas Cook was given a £3.5m pay out over the tragic death of two British children from the Louis Hotels – owner of the Greek bungalow whose faulty boiler leaked the deadly gas into the room where Christi, seven, and Bobby, six, were staying., for loss of revenue and damage to its reputation, while their parents were given only one tenth as compensation. The parents of two children who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Corfu have criticised Thomas Cook for not apologising to them directly.
The children, from Horbury near Wakefield, were on holiday at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel with their father, Neil, and his now wife, Ruth, when they died. They were found by a chambermaid in a bungalow at the hotel.
Their father and stepmother had also become ill and were in a coma when they were found but recovered in hospital.
On 13th May 2015, Wednesday, an inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing in the case and concluded Thomas Cook had “breached its duty of care”.
It found the children had been overcome by fumes from a faulty hot water boiler housed near the bungalow they were staying in.
A spokesman for the company said a letter of apology had been sent from chief executive Peter Frankhauser to Neil Shepherd and Sharon Wood.
However, Mr Shepherd and Mrs Wood said they had only been shown the letter by reporters.
Christi and Bobby Shepherd died while on holiday with their father in 2006.
In a statement, Mr Shepherd and Mrs Wood said: “We haven’t had this so called letter of apology.