Tunisia Inquest: Tourists 'unaware' of security issues

An inquest in to the deaths of 30 Britons killed in the Tunisia terror attack in 2015 has heard that customers booking their holiday online would not have been made aware of previous terror related attacks in the region.

Today the wife of a man from Nottingham who died in the attack said they were not told of the previous incident in the capital Tunis that same year, when they made their booking.

The inquest heard TUI - the operating owner of Thomson and First Choice did not make any changes to its website following the Bardo Museum atrocity which left more than 20, mostly European tourists, dead.

Today at the inquest, Marc Worrall, general manager for digital services operations and quality team at TUI, was asked if he had been given any changes for the websites by TUI after the Bardo attack and he said he had not.

Cheryl Stollery, wife of victim John Stollery from Nottingham said she was not aware of the Bardo incident until after the Sousse attack in which her husband was killed.

Mrs Stollery, who booked her June holiday before the Bardo attack, told thehearing she had always booked her trips in travel agent shops rather than online and would have expected to have been notified of any relevant information.

"I felt confident that if there was anything I needed to know then thatinformation would be shared with me," she said.

Mrs Stollery, who was also in Sousse in February 2015, was asked if she was at any point given advice, written or verbal, to go to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) website, and she said she was not.

Mrs Stollery recalled that nobody ever checked the hotel wristbands worn by her, Mr Stollery and their son Matthew.

The inquest continues tomorrow.

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