the woman at the heart of the post office scandal says she ll hand in her cbe but what s the plan for victims? on newsnight tonight, we hear from several former sub postmasters of south asian heritage who believe discrimination at the hands of the post office compounded their suffering. with my parents, because their english is very broken, people would get quite abrupt with them. so you re saying racism, in your mind, was at play? certainly with my parents. an mp who was also a sub postmasterjoins us does he see a plan forjustice for all the victims? also tonight, newsnight has seen nhs documents that say a student s life could have been saved had doctors at a brighton hospital acted sooner, yet an inquest concluded only yesterday there was nothing to trigger further investigation. we ll have an exclusive report. in washington, donald trump has been arguing that he should be exempt from prosecution. ifeel that, as a president, you have to have immunity, very simple. and if
their daughter was just 21 when last april she was admitted to hospital with abdominal pain. her stomach was twisted, rare in a patient of her age. but doctors at royal sussex county hospital didn t realise. they ordered a chest x ray, but not a ct scan to see her internal organs. she was sent home with medication typically used to treat stomach ulcers. the next day, melissa collapsed at home, she was taken by ambulance back to hospital. she told her mother she could not feel her legs. soon after, melissa had a heart attack. cpr was administered, but when she was taken for emergency surgery, doctors discovered her stomach was dead, and there was nothing they could do. this week, melissa zoglie s family attended the inquest into her death. they were forced to represent themselves because they couldn t afford a lawyer. the trust and a local gp
we understand melissa zoglie s case is not part of that investigation. do you believe the hospital were open and honest with you? no. nno, not at all. we were there throughout. they ve really let us down. we feel disappointed. they haven t learned anything from the mistakes they did. so it s likely they can make the same mistakes over and over again. the trust says they ve been in contact with the family throughout, seeking their views, sharing findings, and offering to meet. melissa zoglie s parents are now looking for a new home, because they say their current flat seems empty and quiet without their daughter. it s not the same without her because always when we are home, we feel, oh, she s gone somewhere and she ll be back. but you wait and you realise, oh, no, she s not coming back. the pope has used his annualforeign policy address to condemn the practice of surrogacy,
bubble on melissa s chest x ray was not recognised and not all clinical reviews were documented. and a review from a senior trust doctor who wasn t involved in melissa s treatment concluded that if surgery had been identified as clinically necessary on the day she first went to hospital. i believe that ms zoglie s life would have been saved. her chest x ray carried out on that day showed an abnormally enlarged stomach. based upon the information available at the time, a ct scan would have been an appropriate follow up investigation. i was concerned to read that the doctors in a&e did try to reach surgeons on a number of occasions without success. and so that does raise questions, i think, about the availability of surgeons in a hospital as huge as the royal sussex. and that then leads to some wider issues, i think, essentially around the defensiveness of the trust, because this case on its own would be tragic enough.