The distressed family of a Brit who died on holiday in Egypt have revealed how his body was flown home without his heart and kidneys.
David Humphries collapsed after playing with his grandkids in a hotel pool last month.
The organs theft was spotted when a UK coroner ordered a second post mortem. The family fear a cover- up and wife Lynda, 59, said: “We want answers.”
The daughter, Anita Goodall, also on the two-week break added: “In Egypt they believe someone cannot be laid to rest without their heart. So I just don’t understand why they would do this to our family.”
David started complaining of chest pains after a week in the resort of Hurghada. After checks by a hotel doctor he was taken to the nearby Red Sea Hospital.
He was discharged and given antibiotics for a chest infection. A few days later he was dead.
Anita said: “He was taken to hospital but nothing could be done. They should never have sent him back to the hotel.”
She and Lynda, his wife of 39 years, spent five hours giving statements to police. But they were told an autopsy was being carried out because the family had expressed concerns over the hospital’s treatment.
Anita added: “We didn’t trust anyone any more. But they told us it was now a police inquiry.
“When the body arrived home we were told it was in no state to be seen. That’s when alarms started ringing. His heart is most likely the thing that will tell us how he died. Now we’ll never know.”
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson told The Sun: “We are assisting the family of the British man who died in Hurghada on 18 September. Our staff in Cairo continue to request further information from the Egyptian authorities to share with both the family and the UK coroner.”
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