Corfu Hotel's License Revoked After Child Deaths
OCTOBER 31, 2006. The operating licence of the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel in Gouvia, Corfu, where two UK children died of carbon monoxide poisoning last week, has been temporarily revoked by the Regional Tourism Service for the Ionian Islands, by order of Greek Tourism Minister Fani Palli-Petralia.
The licence will be revoked permanently if an investigation currently underway proves that the hotel was responsible for the deaths of the two children, who were on holiday with their father, according to the Athens News agncy.
The bodies of Christianne and Robert Shepherd, 7 and 6, were found in the bungalow suite the family had rented last Thursday, while their father, Neil, 38, and his partner, Ruth Beatson, 28, were transported in a comatose condition to a Corfu city intensive care unit. Doctors said the two adults were conscious on Saturday afternoon and recovering.
An autopsy on the two children identified carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause of death, with the investigation focusing on a gas leak into their room from a poorly-ventilated utility room adjacent to the suite.
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