The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Natasha ‘would back bid to change law’
The father of a teenager who died after suffering an allergic reaction to a Pret A Manger sandwich has said she would be supporting her parents in their campaign to change the law.
The family are calling for a law change after Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, 15, from Fulham, collapsed on a British Airways flight from London to Nice in July 2016.
She had been on her way to a four-day break in France with her father and best friend when she bought an artichoke, olive and tapenade baguette as they passed through Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5.
Speaking on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, Nadim EdnanLaperouse, 53, said: “At Natasha’s funeral, in front of 500 people, I promised that we would get justice for her death, justice for the future that no one else should suffer such a needless and pointless death.” He added: “We are campaigning now, taking our voice if you like to raise awareness about this issue, which is actually an extraordinarily poignant one for families, and there are many in the United Kingdom that have allergic children, and we feel that what we’re saying will resonate deeply with them.”
Asked what he thinks Natasha would make of the campaign, he said: “Well Natasha was a very energetic girl, full of energy and always championed the underdog.
“And if anyone was picked on at school she would always side by them to help them through or claim what they were going through was unfair, and so with that in mind as her father, I say in my response to you that she would be in heaven looking down and saying, ‘Yes, yes to daddy, yes to mummy, please make these changes go through.”