Blackburn inquest hears how John and Susan Cooper became fatally ill after adjacent hotel room was treated with chemicals
where a British couple stayed before suddenly falling ill and dying was next door to a room fumigated with chemicals to kill bedbugs hours before, an inquest has heard.
It was then treated with the pesticide, referred to as Lambda, at lunchtime. The Coopers fell ill in the early hours and died the next day.Kelly Ormerod, the couple’s daughter, described her parents, from Burnley, Lancashire, as healthy for their age who had been enjoying a “brilliant” holiday with her, their three grandchildren and family friends.
At 1am John Cooper rang to say Molly was feeling a little unwell and he escorted his granddaughter to her mother’s room on the upper floor. “He just literally slumped and sat on the corner of the bed and said: ‘I’m really not well’,” Ormerod told the hearing.
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