I wanted justice for my father
DONALD Harris was ‘fit and well’ when the first national lockdown started in March 2020, his daughter said yesterday.
But the former Royal Marine died less than two months later after a Covid outbreak at his care home in Alton, Hampshire. His daughter Fay did not see him before his death, and said she had taken legal action against the Government in an attempt to get justice for the 9-year-old.
Miss Harris, 5 , from Alton, said: ‘It has only increased the distress to me and many others that the Government have not been honest and owned up to their mistakes.’
She said her father had suffered from Alzheimer’s, but had been physically fit, and that she had been planning to take him for a sailing trip to mark his 90th birthday. She said: ‘I have lost precious years with my wonderful Dad. I left him fit, well and happy on March 22, 2020, when his home went into lockdown. He should have been safe and protected, but I never saw or spoke to him again.’