UK couple in Egypt 'died of carbon monoxide poisoning'

A British couple who fell ill in their hotel room at a resort in Egypt died from carbon monoxide poisoning after the room next door was sprayed with pesticide to kill bed bugs, a coroner has ruled.

- Josh Halliday

John Cooper, 69, and his wife, Susan, 63, from Burnley, Lancashire, had been enjoying a "brilliant" holiday while staying at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, the inquest into their deaths heard.

Kelly Ormerod, the Coopers' daughter, who described her parents as fit and healthy for their age, had been on holiday with them, their three grandchildren and family friends.

Around lunchtime on the eighth day of their holiday the room next to the Coopers, which had an adjoining door that was kept locked, was fumigated with a pesticide known as Lambda-cyhalothrin for a bed bug infestation.