Adam Chowdhary, now 21, claims he was insane and not in the right frame of mind when he repeatedly told police and ambulance service operators on 999 calls that the assailant had fled the scene.
With the first module of the UK’s Covid-19 Inquiry wrapped up, families who lost a loved one say that lessons must be learnt in time for the next pandemic. Gareth Iacobucci reports
The public inquiry into the UK’s handling of the covid pandemic should make swifter recommendations from its first tranche of hearings so that lessons can be learnt and acted on, representatives of bereaved families have urged.
Heather Hallett, a retired Court of Appeal judge and crossbench peer who is chairing the UK Covid-19 Inquiry,12 has promised to publish regular reports and recommendations as the inquiry progresses and to “work hard to ensure the whole of the UK can learn useful lessons from the pandemic as quickly as possible.”3 The inquiry’s first module, which focused on resilience and preparedness, concluded last month, and the inquiry expects to publish its report on the module in early summer 2024.
But the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK and Northern Ireland group one of t