The daughter of a British couple who died on a Thomas Cook holiday in Egypt is convinced their deaths are suspicious.

Kelly Ormerod said her parents had been “in perfect health” before going to bed but that she found them dying in their hotel room the next morning.

Egyptian authorities had initially claimed that John Cooper, 69, from Burnley, Lancs, had died from a heart attack and that his 63-year-old wife Susan had then collapsed with grief.

But Thomas Cook admitted there was “a raised level of illness among guests” at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada and ordered the evacuation of 301 guests.

Meanwhile a UK lawyer told the Telegraph he is currently representing 20 holidaymakers suing Thomas Cook for allegedly contracting food poisoning at the resort over a three-year period.

Mrs Ormerod, a mother-of-three on holiday with her parents, said: “They had no illness, no stomach upset, no vomiting, no illness whatsoever - they were in perfect health when they went to bed.