Broadcasting regulator Ofcom has rejected a complaint by Thomas Cook over a Panorama report into the deaths of two children on a holiday booked through the travel company.

Thomas Cook had complained the investigation had unfairly misrepresented its conduct after the two children, Christanne and Robert Shepherd, died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on a holiday in Corfu booked through the travel company. Two Thomas Cook employees have since been charged by the Greek courts in relation to the deaths.

In its finding, Ofcom rejected Thomas Cook’s complaint that had offered genuine support to the family following the children’s deaths and that this was not adequately presented in the BBC report, called “Death on Corfu”, which was broadcast on 2 April 2007.