Rachelle Noon and her husband Karl claimed that they had suffered gastric illness from eating the food at their hotel in Protaras, Cyprus and had been forced to spend most of their holiday in their room.

But the couple’s case for £4,000 compensation was dismissed by a judge at Liverpool County Court after Cook’s lawyers found Facebook pictures showing them laughing and smiling on a “party bus” at the time they were supposed to be ill.

They were also ordered to pay Cook’s £2,278 legal costs to fight the couple’s claim after District Judge Jenkinson said Noon had been acting like a “party animal” on the holiday despite the claims of being sick at the time.

The judge said the couple had acted in a “dishonest” way after launching their claim for compensation nine months after returning from their holiday at the Anastasia Beach Hotel. They had not sought medical treatment for their illness during their one-week break in Cyprus.