A pensioner was left close to death in a month-long coma after he contracted legionnaires disease during a package holiday to Benidorm. David Marshall, 79, said he might not recover from the severe form of pneumonia, which may have been caused by a faulty air conditioning unit.
The retired union official explained that he had jetted off to the Spanish seaside resort with his wife, Dorothy, and daughter in law for a “much-needed break”. But when he arrived, he was advised there was only a “skeleton staff” at his hotel due to low occupancy and found the fan in his room was noisy and dripped water.
David later experienced confusion, a productive cough, shortness of breath, kidney pains, diarrhoea and vomiting. And when he finally made it back to England, he was rushed to hospital in an ambulance, where he was put into a coma for a month.
