Hartlepool Mail Letter of the week: Tainted blood scandal is 'rotten to the core'
That tainted blood was administered by the NHS to unwitting patients is the starkest example.
The victims and families - including Hartlepool-born Peter Longstaff's widow Carol Grayson - of an appalling tragedy have been left fighting against the authorities for several decades to obtain a proper investigation.
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Hide AdThe question should not be why have a public inquiry, but why haven’t we had one sooner?
There are those, I’m thinking in particular of Labour MP Andy Burnham, who say there has been a monumental cover up.
The more I hear, the more I’m convinced there’s something rotten at the core of Government that has prevented this inquiry coming sooner.
A Cooper,
Hartlepool.
Last week's Letter of the week: "To call Hartlepool's Church Street a conservation area is a joke"