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[Melanie Leahy | #MatthewsCampaign -Lampard Inquiry @MelanieLeahy]

Imagine discovering that, while you were fighting for answers about your son’s death, a government minister was discussing how to isolate you.

That is what happened to me.

In 2024, I was shown WhatsApp messages reportedly sent by Nadine Dorries to Matt Hancock while I was campaigning for a statutory public inquiry into mental-health deaths in Essex.

One message read:

“We aren’t going there… I’m picking off the other families and speaking to them one by one to get them on side to isolate her.”

I was “her”.

I was a bereaved mother asking the Government to investigate how my 20-year-old son, Matthew Leahy, died while detained in an NHS mental-health unit.

During the parliamentary debate on 30 November 2020, Nadine Dorries also stated that Matthew had taken his own life. Barbara Keeley MP immediately challenged this because Matthew’s inquest returned an open narrative verdict and I did not accept that account. Hansard was later formally corrected to say that Matthew “died by hanging while he was in the care of the NHS”.

After more than 105,000 people supported my petition, the Government established only a non-statutory inquiry—without the power to compel witnesses to give evidence. It eventually became unworkable because of poor staff cooperation and was not converted into a statutory inquiry until 2023.

No bereaved mother seeking the truth should ever be viewed as someone to be isolated, managed or silenced.

I was not the problem.

I was exposing the problem.

I am still here. I am still asking questions. And I will continue fighting for truth, accountability and safer mental-health services.

For Matthew—and for every family who deserves answers.

#MatthewsCampaign #LampardInquiry #MentalHealthReform #PatientSafety #Accountability #JusticeForMatthew

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@AirtimeRewards why is it so difficult to do such a simple thing as to change the phone number linked to your account ?

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@GMB what an absolutely terrible choice of guest. She had no idea on how the issue will be handled in the UK so why ask her on ? Whole interview was a waste of electric !

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@gotrice2024 She needs to bore off with her made up “content”.

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@ick_real Constance

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@Fat_Jacques @SueJ1973 I do both of these things !

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@SUBWAY your Winsford store is an absolute joke

[Michael Ware @HorusConsulting]

@chrislittlewoo8 The money is going into public sector pensions

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@ShabanaMahmood Are you stupid - actually you don’t need to answer that !!! What an insult to hard working law abiding tax payers to give our money away so freely. Stop them coming in the first place. Don’t offer incentives to come 😡

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@AndyBurnhamGM arriving at Manchester Airport last night was absolutely shambolic. No customer service. No one there to help, over an hour for cases to come out and dangerous overcrowding in the baggage reclaim hall. Such an unwelcoming experience into the city.

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@hlpdesk_manair what an absolute shambles this airport is

Can’t even get a trolly for your luggage. Go all over the world and they are free. Here you have to pay and the machines don’t even work.

Sort it out

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@KeruboSk Just block him and don’t waste any more time thinking about the loser. He’s not worth it

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@AirtimeRewards what an absolute con. Promise rewards then only allow £10 withdrawal per month.

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Omg @BBCBreakfast Naga is just so painful to watch. Let him speak and stop talking over the guests. It’s not about you !!! Viewers are interested in what @AndyBurnhamGM has to say. Not you. Don’t be so rude!

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@RoyalMailHelp why are you continuing to deliver mail and parcels to my old address when I have paid for redirection. Such bad service

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@RoyalMail why when I have paid for mail redirection are you continuing to send things to my old address.

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@nypost I really am sick of hearing about this pair now. Who cares ?

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

We really are getting so much wrong aren’t we? 😔

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@boddy_mdb @SkyHelpTeam Same issues here. Sort it @SkyHelpTeam

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Very happy to pay once I’ve received a bill and can check it’s right and without having to call and speak to someone who can’t speak English and doesn’t know what they are on about Please advise

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@O2 I keep receiving demanding texts and emails about my final bill but when I log in there is no bill. Also the amounts change from message to message so I am reluctant to pay until you’ve got this right.