A sickened Leshie Chandrapala watched the Mirror’s new video of the Tories partying as she faced yet another Father’s Day without her dad Ranjith.
Mr Chandrapala, a London bus driver who served the route to Ealing Hospital in West London without PPE, died from Covid 19 in May 2020 aged 64.
“It’s like a punch to the stomach such as physical feeling of pain, it’s just so disgusting they would do that,” says Leshie, a 43-year-old practise manager and campaigner for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice.
“It’s sickening that as I face another Father’s Day without him, here is more evidence of how Tory staffers danced on his grave, on the graves of all the people who have lost their lives over the pandemic.
“My life just drained away after dad died. This brings all the trauma back.
“This video is an open mockery of the bereaved, the key workers who died and everyone single one of us who followed the rules.“
Before he died Leshie said she got to have one call with him while he was on a ventilator.
“I had to say everything I wanted to say to my dad in a matter of minutes,” she recalls.
Leshie, who has watched the video many times because couldn’t believe what she was watching, is appalled that some of those partying in the video were rewarded in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list.
“These Tories in their words say they were bending the rules,” she says. “If they think that this was bending them, I would like to see what they would recognise as actually breaking lockdown rules. This government has no integrity.
"They don’t even know what it means.”
