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Ex-Cook agent died of carbon monoxide poisoning, inquest hears

Middle East
Harry Kemble
9 November 2023

A pathologist has told the inquest into the deaths of a former Thomas Cook agent and her husband, who fell ill at a hotel in Egypt in August 2018, that the couple died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Susan Cooper, who worked at a Thomas Cook agency in Burnley, was on holiday with her husband John when tragedy struck

However, expert witnesses said they could not be sure of the source of the poisonous gas that killed Susan Cooper, 63, and her husband John, 69, Blackburn Coroner’s Court heard.


Susan Cooper, who worked at a Thomas Cook agency in Burnley, was on holiday with her husband at the Aqua Magic Hotel in Hurghada when tragedy struck in August 2018.