Mother’s Anguish As She Receives News Of Her Children’s Deaths While Holidaying With Their Dad And Stepmom

A mother sat in anguish yesterday as she heard how her two children were killed by fumes emanating from a faulty boiler right stationed right next to their hotel room at the four-star Corfu hotel in Greece.

According to Mail Online, Christianne Shepherd, seven, and her brother Robert, six, were overcome by carbon monoxide that leaked from a faulty boiler as a ‘happy and relaxed’ family holiday in Corfu ended in ‘appalling tragedy’. Tests showed the family had suffered carbon monoxide poisoning. The cause was identified as the gas-fired hot water boiler in an outhouse next to the bedrooms.

Their father Neil Shepherd – who is Mrs Wood’s ex-husband – and his partner Ruth Beatson fell into a coma and were close to death when they were found the next morning by a maid, along with the bodies of the children. The couple recovered after emergency treatment.

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Yesterday, Mrs Wood, 44, sat in silence as the details of her children’s final hours were related to the inquest jury at Wakefield Coroner’s Court, nine years after the tragedy.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk