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Thomas Cook: ‘Profits put before grieving parents’

Thomas Cook was more concerned with profits than looking after the family of two children who died on holiday in Corfu, according to a damning report.

The company is accused of being uncaring in dealing with the deaths of Bobby and Christi Shepherd, aged six and seven, in 2006.

The children died from carbon monoxide poisoning on a Thomas Cook holiday after inhaling fumes from a faulty boiler in their hotel room, yet in the aftermath of the tragedy the company at times ignored their grieving parents entirely.

A report by Justin King, the former chief executive of J Sainsbury, has concluded that Thomas Cook allowed financial and legal considerations to cloud the way that it dealt with the human side of the tragedy. He