A WHISTLEBLOWING nurse who raised a series of grievances over how Covid-19 was being handled in Scotland has raised concerns over the legitimacy of the official inquiry into the pandemic - after she was rejected as a core participant.
Lesley Roberts, a former infection control nurse and trade union health and safety representative in the UK's largest health board has told Lord Brailsford he should be removed as chairman of the inquiry after being told she does not qualify as a core participant to the inquiry. She says she may not even be called to give oral evidence.
It forms part of deeper concerns from Ms Roberts over whether the Scottish Government is serious about getting to the bottom of how the handling of the pandemic went so wrong.
She raised a complaint against Nicola Sturgeon over corporate manslaughter to Police Scotland as part of a campaign to hold the Scottish Government to account for thousands of deaths since the start of the pandemic in March, 2020.
It is understood that later this week, two months after making the complaint to Cowcaddens police station in Glasgow she is due to give a statement to officers about the complaint. It comes after she wrote to the Chief Constable and the First Minister last week about what she believed was "procrastination" over pursuing the case.
Since the start of the pandemic, Ms Roberts raised 22 official internal complaints over how Covid was being dealt with.
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