Customer fined over false sickness claim

A holidaymaker who claimed she’d suffered food poisoning on a holiday with Thomas Cook has had her claim thrown out by a judge after her Facebook pictures showed her on boat trips and drinking alcohol by the hotel pool.

Marissa McLean, from Redditch, Worcestershire, said she’d been taken ill after eating ‘under-cooked chicken’ at the all-inclusive four-star Sol Y Mar hotel in Sharm el-Sheikj in September 2015.

The 27-year-old tried to bring a claim against Thomas Cook, saying she’d had ‘nausea and diarrhoea’ and ‘horrible stomach pains’.

But Worcester County Court heard that her Facebook posts told a different story, with pictures of her sipping rum and coke by the pool with the caption ‘pacing myself’, and another captioned ‘little selfie before the pool party’.

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