Nicola Sturgeon and Jeane Freeman have been urged to come clean about "one of the worst atrocities of the pandemic".
25.01.2024 - 05:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Scotland's Covid bereaved are demanding First Minister Humza Yousaf answers key questions as he faces the UK Covid Inquiry today.
The First Minister was a cabinet secretary for justice and then health during the pandemic.
And today he will be grilled on key decisions the Scottish Government took to contain the virus – which claimed 16,465 lives in Scotland.
Yesterday, families of those who died in the outbreak demanded answers from Yousaf on vital decisions – including the scandal of care home deaths, PPE in hospitals and the decision to keep schools open.
Yousaf was also urged to come clean on why government ministers and senior officials – including the then first minister Nicola Sturgeon – deleted WhatsApp messages.
Among those demanding answers today are the family of Thomas Lee, 82, who died of Covid in an
Edinburgh nursing home in May 2020.
Daughter Helen, from Edinburgh, said: “There can be no secrets, nothing hidden, everything must be out in the open. Humza Yousaf has to be transparent for all the families who lost some-one during the pandemic.
“He needs to be truthful and answer all questions put to him.
“But he mustn’t fudge it by saying it was Nicola Sturgeon who was first minister. This has repercussions for him and his government, this is not going away.”
Helen demanded to know why WhatsApp messages were deleted by politicians and advisers, saying: “It comes over as quite sinister. Deleting these messages when it was such important decisions they were discussing.”
Charmaine Dodds’ husband Lee died aged just 32 after a hospital turned him away three times when he was struggling with Covid.
She is also demanding full disclosure from the First Minister, saying: “The truth needs to come out and that’s it.
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