Holidaymakers want answers after bug hits

LAWYERS have been called in by holidaymakers who want answers after they suffered a gastric illness during a stay at a hotel in Benidorm.

Glasgow woman Mary McKay, 45, is one of the many holidaymakers who has called for an investigation after she fell ill during her week-long holiday at the Hotel Helios.

Irwin Mitchell’s International Personal Injury team has been formally instructed to investigate the problems faced by several families during their holidays at the resort in April.

Some of the holidaymakers required hospital treatment as a result of the severe gastric symptoms of diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach cramps that they developed.

Mary said: “We were only there for a week, so to fall ill after just a few days was massively frustrating after spending so much money on going there. This simply should not have occurred and I feel we deserve answers about what happened.”

The legal experts have now begun making their own enquiries into the illness suffered on the holidays which were booked through tour operator Jet2holidays Ltd.

Amandeep Samra, the specialist illness lawyer at Irwin Mitch- ell who is representing those affected, said: “We have been advised by our clients that they were aware of others who were also ill.

“As part of our work, we would be keen to hear from anyone else who may have also been affected.”

A spokesman for Jet2holidays said: “As this is part of an ongoing legal process, we are unable to comment at this time.”