Tommy O'Harney fell ill while he and his wife Julie were on their honeymoon on the Greek island of Zante.

Mr O'Harney was admitted to Lightburn Hospital in Glasgow with a suspected urinary infection when he returned from holiday earlier this month.

He was transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary when his condition deteriorated and he died a short time later.

I would like to know how my husband caught this disease and how it is possible that he is the only one who seems to have caught it

Julie O'Harney

Mrs O'Harney told The Daily Record newspaper that her husband's death had left the family "completely heartbroken".

She said that her husband, from Ruchazie in the east end of the city, began to feel ill towards the end of their honeymoon.

"The holiday went perfectly until a few days before we were due to come home," she said.

"Tommy said he was feeling ill, he was hot and feverish and he felt light-headed. His symptoms got worse and we thought he had taken too much sun on the beach, so he kept taking fluids."

'Numb and angry'

His family gathered at his bedside as Mr O'Harney's health deteriorated and are asking how he died.

Mrs O'Harney said: "I have been left feeling numb and empty and now I feel angry.

"I would like to know how my husband caught this disease and how it is possible that he is the only one who seems to have caught it."

A spokeswoman for Greater Glasgow Health NHS said Mr O'Harney's death did not represent any public health risk in Glasgow.

Mr O'Harney's health deteriorated in hospital

"Legionnaires' disease is not transmitted from person to person, it is contracted at source.

"We are satisfied that the source in this case was not in Britain," she said.

Mrs O'Harney said she was told that air conditioning units and shower heads may have been the source of the disease but no-one else in Zante had been affected.

Three people north of the border have been confirmed in the last month as having contracted the disease.

The cases were being linked by health officials to the Barrow-in-Furness outbreak in England which has claimed the lives of five people.

Officials have identified a 30-year-old air-conditioning system at the Cumbrian town's Forum 28 leisure centre as the source of the outbreak.