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A Covid hero’s widow claims her late husband’s laptop and phone could contain missing pandemic messages from top Scottish Government figures.
Humza Yousaf is under huge pressure over claims senior figures like Nicola Sturgeon and national clinical director Jason Leitch deleted Whatsapp messages during covid.
The scandal led to the Government handing over nearly 14,000 Whatsapps to the UK Covid inquiry this week.
Now Louise Slorance, whose husband Andrew helped co-ordinate the Scottish Government’s covid response before his death in 2020, believes his old work computer could contain key information for the covid inquiry.
And she is demanding the Covid Inquiry take his laptop and access the information in it.
She said: “The voices of the dead must be heard and the duty to learn lessons seen. There is no place for secrecy.”
She also said the Government should provide answers on the Samsung phone she returned:
"The Scottish Government has shown total disregard for his life and work by playing fast and loose with information produced in the course of his work, during the last few months of his life."
Andrew was a respected civil servant who, as the Government’s head of Response and Communication Unit, co-ordinated the handling of the pandemic.
His widow said he was in contact with Sturgeon, Leitch, the then Health Secretary Jeane Freeman and others throughout the crisis.
Speaking to the Record, Louise said she does not have the password for the laptop she believes is crucial to the Inquiry and claimed his phone is also vitally important.
She said: “Andrew, as a civil servant, held a strong conviction in his responsibility to serve the people of Scotland.
“As a shielder, Andrew was not in the office for the most part up to his death in
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