{"id":402721,"date":"2026-02-01T18:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402721\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:59:07","slug":"four-britons-died-within-months-after-cape-verde-stomach-bugs-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/402721\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Britons died within months after Cape Verde stomach bugs &#8211; lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three days into their holiday in October, Ashley fell ill with symptoms including stomach pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and extreme lethargy, Irwin Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm said it was representing the families of the six people who had died and more than 1,500 people who had fallen ill after visits to the archipelago, which is west of Mauritania and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Ashley said they booked their \u00a33,000-plus trip with Tui, and said she reported her husband&#8217;s illness on the holiday firm&#8217;s app on 9 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she had raised concerns over the hygiene standards at the resort she stayed at on the island of Sal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On their return, her husband&#8217;s symptoms continued for some time, his wife said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After collapsing at home in Houghton Regis, the 55-year-old, who had diabetes,  which was controlled through medication, was taken to hospital on 12 November and was confirmed dead minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His death has been referred to the coroner, Irwin Mitchell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three days into their holiday in October, Ashley fell ill with symptoms including stomach pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, fever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-402721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}