Thomas Cook 'got £3.5m payout' after Corfu gas deaths

Holiday company Thomas Cook has confirmed it received compensation from a Greek hotel where two UK children died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Mail on Sunday reported a £3.5m payout was made for loss of profits and other expenses from the tragedy.

Christi Shepherd, seven, and her brother Bobby, six, were killed by fumes from a faulty hot water boiler at their hotel in Corfu in October 2006.

Thomas Cook said all parties affected by the deaths had been compensated.

The company, which did not reveal the amount they were given, also told the BBC that the compensation covered only part of its costs.

Ben Ando reports.