Foreign Office officials knew security at hotels in the Tunisian resort of Sousse was too weak to stop a terrorist attack months before a gunman shot dead 30 British holidaymakers, an inquest has heard.

A reconnaissance of hotels by a Foreign Office official found there was little security in place to prevent or respond to an attack.

The survey included the hotel where Seifeddine Rezgui would later go on a shooting rampage and focussed particularly on the security of beachfront entrances such as the one he would use during his assault.

The Foreign Office then did not raise its threat level warning to tourists despite a deadly attack killing tourists in Tunis museum.

Rezgui shot dead a total of 38 tourists in a marauding attack through the Imperial Marhaba hotel on June 26, 2015.