The widower of a gran who died of legionnaires’ disease while on holiday in the Caribbean to celebrate her 70th birthday has launched legal action against a tour operator. Lynn Stigwood caught the deadly bug during a 10-day stay at the Grand Sirenis resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, in 2019 with her husband Melvyn.
She started vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea and was struggling to breathe before being taken to a local hospital. She was placed in an induced coma before being transferred to Florida in the US for further treatment.
She spent the next month in a coma but never regained consciousness. She died on September 29, 2019, six days after her 70th birthday. Now, almost three years on from her death, lawyers have issued High Court proceedings against their tour operator TUI.
