LAMARA BELL & JOHN YUILL
The families of Lamara, 25, and her partner John, 28, from Falkirk, are still waiting on an FAI date. The couple died in a car accident on the M9 in July 2015, after a police call centre failed to send a patrol to check on reports of a crash. They were left undetected on the roadside for three days. Lamara’s parents Andrew and Diane, who care for her children Alysha, 11, and Kieran, seven, haven’t been told when an FAI will be held. Andrew,And 51, a lab technician, said: “The anticipation and anxiety it causes is ridiculous. “YoYou never feel that you have got past day one. We just want to draw a line and stop all the speculation and let tthe children move on with their lives.” John’s J stepmother Anita Dollard, 52, from Falkirk, says the family, including dad Gordon, are frustrated by the long wait and delays. She said: “You do not feel you can move on until after the FAI. It is almost as if your life is on hold.
“The children are looking for answers that you cannot give them. It is very frustrating not knowing what to say to them.”
Anita, who brought up John since he was two, added: “We were warned from day one that it would be a long time.
“That FAIs can take years to come to fruition and they could not ever place a time limit on it.
“It does not seem fair that you are waiting all these years for an explanation.
“You don’t have answers, you do not know what happened and, to an extent, you never are going to know what happened.
“They hold information on file that you have no control over. That is frustrating because you think, ‘That is our child you are talking
about.’”