Dear Bel,
I’m nearly 70, my brother nearly 77. We live about 25 miles away from each other.
When I was a teenager he was an insurance agent, married with two children. Our neighbour died from cancer and my brother was dealing with it, but instead of paying out to the widower, he stole the money and spent it on a girlfriend. The widower called the police and he was sent to Strangeways prison.
Mum was ostracised by the neighbours and it broke her heart.
Thought of the day
May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
My story goes back to around nine years ago.
At 25, I was living at home with Mum and Dad. He lost his job as a carpenter, which led to a catastrophic breakdown.
He and my mother had been married for almost 35 years and although we supported him as best we could, his entire personality and outlook on life changed. He was no longer the wonderful, caring, rock of a father I’d depended on.
The situation worsened as I sided with Mum. Dad seemed the guilty party. Things were said that shouldn’t have been, and things became so bad we had to move away.
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Grieving families last night said deaths had been wrongly certified as Covid-19.
Demanding an inquiry, top medical experts and MPs also insisted they were ‘certain’ that too many fatalities were being blamed on the virus.
One funeral director said it was ‘a national scandal’. The claims are part of a Daily Mail investigation that raises serious questions over the spiralling death toll.
More than 100 readers wrote heartbreaking letters following a moving article by Bel Mooney last Saturday. She revealed the death of her 99-year-old father, who suffered from dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, was recorded as coronavirus.
Layla Moran (pictured) , the Liberal Democrat MP who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on coronavirus, said: ‘The Government should call a public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic immediately with an interim investigation into all Covid deaths that should report as soon as possible’