FAMILIES OF COVID VICTIMS: We need public inquiry NOW JEAN ADAMSON JADE FOSTER-JERRETT

“The Prime Minister has not even given us the decency of a personal acknowledgment, let alone responded to our requests for a meeting.

“So we thought if he won’t come to us, then we would go to him.

“We won’t let the deaths of our loved ones be in vain. And we won’t allow the Government to risk a second wave of deaths without learning from their mistakes.

Jo, a self-employed project manager, added: “It is unbelievable that the Government considers it acceptable to effectively blank hundreds of bereaved families and doesn’t even have the decency to give us a proper response.

“We are calling on the Prime Minister and Health Secretary to meet with us to discuss our concerns and the way forward for the UK.”

The group, composed of hundreds of families who believe their loved ones’ deaths were preventable, want to see an immediate limited-scope inquiry which will expose any failings and provide valuable lessons to be learned for any second wave.

Yesterday a further 148 deaths in the UK were reported, bringing the oficial death toll to 44,798. Around 20,000 were in care homes in England and Wales and 2,000 in Scotland.

The Sunday People first warned of the ticking time bomb in care homes on April 5 – weeks before other newspapers.

We accurately predicted that the spread of Covid-19 through old

AT midday on April 14, Jean was told her dad Aldrick, 98, was sitting up in hospital, singing hymns. The grandfather of four, a former Underground guard, was there after falling ill at his Essex care home. Within 24 hours, she got a call to say Covid-19 had ravaged his body and he had passed away. CQC consultant Jean, of Woodford Green, north-east London, said: “I want justice.

“I’m angry with the Government – they mismanaged it from the outset.”

people’s residential quarters would lead to widespread loss of life. Now the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group want to see “life and death” issues explored – such as PPE shortages and the failure to impose a lockdown before March 23.

The Health Service Ombudsman, Amnesty International and presidents

of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Nursing, Physicians, and GPS have backed growing calls for a review.

But the Tories have repeatedly rejected the calls.

The group’s members include Hannah Brady, 24, and sister Tasha, 22, who lost their dad Shaun, 55.

The Heinz factory worker, from

JADE, 37, lost dad Larry on April 1 – two weeks after he was 65. She last saw him on a night out celebrating with mum Mandy, 61, on March 16. Had lockdown been sooner she believes he wouldn’t have caught it.

Larry, from Romford in Essex, and Mandy went to hospital after developing symptoms.

They were separated until Larry, a DJ, died. Jade said: “We need to be heard. The Government have neglected everybody. It’s disgusting.”

Wigan, Lancs, was fit and healthy before suddenly being struck down by the coronavirus in April.

His family believe he caught the bug eight days before lockdown in March when using public transport to get to work.

Hannah, a legal office worker, said: “We’re not just looking for an apology