'I take a scoop of my parents' ashes everywhere I go after they were poisoned by bed bug spray'
20.11.2023 - 12:49
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum whose parents died after being poisoned by bed bug spray on a family holiday says she takes a scoop of their ashes with her on her own trips round the world.
Kelly Ormerod, 46, went on a two-week annual family holiday in August 2018 to Hurghada, Egypt, with her parents, three children and family friends.
Five days into their trip, her mum and dad, Susan, 63, and John Cooper, 69, fell ill while in their room at a five-star all-inclusive hotel - after a next door room had been fumigated.
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The pair - who had been married for 40 years, from Burnley, Lancashire - were poisoned overnight. Kelly found them in bed the next morning ''surrounded by pools of vomit''.
Susan was taken to Aseel Medical Care Hospital, in Hurghada, Egypt, for tests two hours after John was given CPR - and then passed away- on the hotel room floor. The couple passed away just four hours apart on 21 August, 2018.
After a five year wait, Kelly and her family have finally been given ''closure'' after an inquest hearing, during which Dr James Adeley, senior coroner for Lancashire, ruled the deaths were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning - as a result of inhaling the vapour from spraying the pesticide which contained dichloromethane.
During his concluding remarks, he said their family had gone through a "truly terrible experience" as they watched their loved ones pass away. Kelly and her three children now take a ''scoop'' of their grandparents ashes on every holiday they take and scatter them in the sea to ''feel closer to them''.
Kelly, a civil servant, from Burnley, Lancashire, said: "I've been