Sharon Wood
Thomas Cook gives Corfu ‘blood money’ for children’s deaths to charity
Travel company Thomas Cook said that it had received 1.5 million pounds in 2013 as part of a settlement with the hotel owner Louis Group in connection with the deaths of Bobby and Christi Shepherd, aged 6 and 7 years, in Corfu due to a faulty boiler in 2006.
Parents want part of Thomas Cook’s compensation for their kids’ monoxide poisoning on Corfu
An inquest by Wakefield Coroner’s Court into the deaths of Bobby and Christi Sheherd, aged six and seven when they died while on a holiday to Corfu, found that tour operators Thomas Cook “breached their duty of care.” The children died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty boiler while on holiday in 2006.
Corfu inquest into carbon monoxide deaths of 2 British children
Sharon Wood and Neil Shepherd sat in anguish listening to testimonies at Wakefield Coronor’s Court that began on Monday to determine how her children died during a holiday on the island of Corfu almost a decade ago.