 Two Thomas Cook employees were subsequently amongst 11 defendants facing manslaughter by negligence charges at a criminal trial in Greece in 2010; both were acquitted and the company was cleared of any wrongdoing.In 2015, a UK inquest was held into the children's deaths; the jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing and concluded that the travel group had "breached its duty of care".After the inquest, "The Mail on Sunday" published a news story saying that Thomas Cook had received £3 million from the owners of the hotel where the children's deaths had occurred.