# Justice 4 Andy

> Human BSE, VCJD, Mad Cow Disease, Who killed my son?


## Pages

- [List of Victims 2](https://justice4andy.com/victims-2-rev2): Listed below are the names and profiles of hundreds of people who have died, been diagnosed or affected by vCJD. These are the victims I know about whose families have come forward and talked openly about their loved ones suffering. There have been hundreds more victims whose families have been so INTIMIDATED BY GOVERNMENT OFFICALS …NOT TO SPEAK OUT OR TALK that they remain hidden and traumatized.Unfortunately as the weeks, months and years pass numbers of victims will grow and hundreds possibly thousands more innocent people will die…… UK* Holly Mills aged 26 Student from North Yorkshire (died 21st November 2011)(diagnosed 2003 received controversial […]
- [Media](https://justice4andy.com/media): Monday 23 October 2023 Radio 4, 10 part series (Podcast) ‘THE COWS ARE MAD’ If you care about the food you eat, the politicians you vote for and the scientists in whom you place your trust. Please listen to my story on BBC podcast,’ The Cows are Mad’, a ten part series for Radio 4, beginning, Monday October 23rd 1.45pm. All episodes available BBC sounds. The Cows are Mad, Producer Lucy Proctor https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ryb4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ryb4 World at One Christine’s major documentary cows cash and cover-ups? see trailer below and 5 ***** UK Film review. April 2019 https://www.ukfilmreview.co.uk/blog/cows-cash-cover-ups-investigating-vcjd-film-review ‘this film is a hard […]
- [Who is to Blame?](https://justice4andy.com/who-is-to-blame): Who Is to Blame?
- [Home](https://justice4andy.com/): This is a site dedicated all the victims VCJD, the human form of mad cow disease/Human BSE. In particular my son Andrew Black. The information here has been researched by Christine Lord an award winning journalist and film maker, during the past 17 years and is constantly updated as new information becomes known. 1 in 2,000 of the UK population now carry or incubate human BSE and with incubation period upwards of 50 years many more people may die. Others may be passing on Human BSE through medical procedures/medicines sourced from human blood. Christine’s book now available on Amazon. ‘Who […]
- [Who's to blame? #2](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2)
- [Comments](https://justice4andy.com/your-comments-from-january-2012-to-may2012): A Selection Of Your Comments ~ January 2010-  2015 September 2015 Hi Christine, As soon as I heard Professor Collinge speaking on the news yesterday, I thought of you.  I also bought The Times and The Independent,both of which had front page articles about the connection between Alzheimers and CJD.  I intended sending the links to you this morning but now I would think you already have them. The story that was missing from the papers was YOUR story.  The story of a devoted mother who made a promise to her beloved son.  I cannot think of sufficient words to express how much I admire […]
- [Christine's Blog](https://justice4andy.com/christines-blog-2): Hello I’m Christine, Because my blog has grown so large it has now moved to its own site. Please go to www.justiceforandy.com and view my current post and archive blogs.
- [Photos of victims](https://justice4andy.com/photos-of-victims): Photos of just some of the hundreds of people who have died, and continue to die of the human form of mad cow diease. Also a photo of one of the many living victims of Human BSE ( November 2018) Emily now aged 19. She was  born to Sally Evans 24 who died 7 months later of the human form of mad cow disease. Emily was severely disabled from birth and is MVgenotype, which can slow down the progression of Human BSE. ‘1 in 2,000 of the Uk population now carry or incubate the human form of mad cow disease’ […]
- [Documents #1](https://justice4andy.com/documents): Documents – (a selection of evidence and information collated since the start of the campaign) See profile Ray Bradley <   Here is a letter I received from Nutrica who own Cow and Gate, after I requested information about MRM in their baby food products during the 1980s and 1990s. The UK government knew of these practices in the baby food industry, and condoned and encouraged the use of cheap MRM in commercially prepared baby food.  
- [Conspiracy of Silence](https://justice4andy.com/conspiracy-of-silence): The human form of mad cow disease, known as Human BSE or vCJD has not gone away, it continues to kill people in the UK and globally and individuals and cattle across the world. In October 18th 2018, BSE diagnosed in beef herd in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. No cow/steer is ever diagnoised with mad cow disease in isolation. Cows/steers often show no symptoms of BSE and are sent to slaughter. What about the siblings, parents and off-spring of this 5 year old beef steer that died of BSE? The farmer in Aberdeenshire only knew the cow was ill when it […]
- [Photos](https://justice4andy.com/friends-of-andy/photos_19): Photos
- [Letters](https://justice4andy.com/friends-of-andy/letters_18):   A few words from Andrews friends Sorry to hear about your loss. Andy was an old work friend. I started work at talkSPORT in July 2001, the first time I met Andy was 12th of September 2001, leaning into the 13th as it was the overnight shift. It was a horrible time with the twin towers disaster. But it was good to have Andy and Sean there in the control room with me. We shared some moments of worry and concern, it was a strange feeling in the studio of not really knowing what to talk about, what would […]
- [Screening tests](https://justice4andy.com/blood-safety/screening-tests):  Monday October 20th 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVSm9Mr7TFk   The Government has rejected calls for further research and safeguards into vCJD the human form of mad cow disease.  It has dismissed the significant and essential recommendations that an Inquiry by influential MPs from the Science and Technology Committee made in their report. (Published 24th July 2014.)   The MPs took a detailed look at Britain’s blood supply and the very real risk that human BSE is being passed on by blood donors who are unaware they are carrying the infection.   Two essential recommendations the Inquiry members made was a large scale vCJD […]
- [Info/Victims](https://justice4andy.com/blood-safety/infovictims): Info/Victims These pages are dedicated to all individuals who have died of vCJD by blood or medical procedures. Its also dedicated to living victims those affected by and living with the label ‘at risk of developing vCJD’ due to being given contaminated blood/blood products, cells tissues, organs or by maternal transmission. Victims, their families stories, testimonies, statements and experiences will be posted here so that the public are aware just how many thousands of people in the UK and worldwide continue to be affected by this ticking health time bomb. Monday 28th July 2014  http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/140718-bto-report-to-be-published/ MPS report  UK Government’s casual […]
- [Silent carriers](https://justice4andy.com/blood-safety/silent-carriers): November 16th 2017 TalkEurope Radio Christine’s live interview, with Sean Bolger on ‘Lets Talk’. Discussing the UK government refusal to validate or positively support a blood screening test for vcjd, so that all blood donors UK and globally could be tested for this lethal and on-going disease. Silent Carriers In 2012 the Health Protection Agency in the UK revealed that ‘ one in 2,000 of the UK population either carry or are incubation Human BSE’. (The Lancet Infectious Diseases Volume 12, Page 897) These shocking findings were exposed after the screening of tonsils and appendix taking from patients in the […]
- [Campaign](https://justice4andy.com/blood-safety/campaign): Campaign Goals 1. ‘A criminal investigation and punishment for those responsible for BSE and its lethal human pathogen vCJD’ 2. Introduction of individual screening tests for blood donors and hospital patients to prevent future and further deaths of vCJD through person to person/secondary transmission.  1 in 2,000 of the UK population may carry or be incubating vCJD, human form of mad cow disease. (Lancet Research December 2012 Volume 12, Page 897) 3. Research into atypical dementia as many cases particularly in older people may well be mis diagnosed vcjd. (Recommendation House of Commons, Science and Technology Committee, Hansard 16th July […]
- [List of Victims](https://justice4andy.com/list-of-names): LIST OF VICTIMS of vCJD Listed below are just a few of the names and profiles of  the hundreds of people who have died of human BSE/vCJD, here in the UK and globally. Tens of thousands more  people in the UK and globally are disabled or  ‘at risk of  ‘vcjd’, after exposure to contaminated medicines, vaccines, blood or medical instruments. There are also living victims of vcjd who have ‘legal injuctions’ placed on them being named and identified. Millions more of us were exposed repeatedly to BSE infected material throughout the 1980s, 1990s and beyond. This was via food, food […]
- [Organophosphate](https://justice4andy.com/whats-to-blame/organophosphate): In 1978 it was estimated that over 38 per cent of cattle in Great Britain were infected with Warble Fly. The Phillips Inquiry on Livestock Farming stated “The larvae of warble fly live within the body of the cow. Their presence may cause distress to the animal and have severe economic consequences” The inquiry continued “Furthermore milk yield can be reduced as much as 25 per cent”. It wasn’t just milk profits that were affected by the warble fly, hide for leather could be rendered useless. The warble fly had considerable economic consequences for the dairy and leather industry. These […]
- [Baby food](https://justice4andy.com/whats-to-blame/baby-food): When Andy was discharged from hospital dying of human BSE aged just 24 years old, a member of the CJD Edinburgh Surveillance Unit came to visit our home. The Unit’s job is to research and gather data regarding victims, their lifestyles and routines to try to find a common link. They look at dietary factors, lifestyle choice and everything else which can cause patients to develop vCJD. On June 14th 2007 the Unit’s Research Registrar Dr Gurjit Chohan (see Prof Will Tyrrell Committee) came to see us, and after a brief hello and examination of Andy, she spent the next […]
- [Vaccines](https://justice4andy.com/whats-to-blame/vaccines): During John Major’s premiership at least 2 million infants and children were inoculated with vaccines containing bovine material from UK cattle. Produced between 1988-1989 there are no records (I am still trying to obtain documents) of the children who received the jabs. Made by Wellcome and Smithkline, these are: 1. Smithkline MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) finally replaced by end of 1992 2. Wellcome combined Diphtheria and Tetanus 3. Wellcome DTP (diphtheria, Tetanus Pertussis) last issued June 1991 4. Wellcome single component Diphtheria vaccine last issued in October 1991 5. Wellcome Tetanus last issued in December 1991 with a December 1993 […]
- [MRM](https://justice4andy.com/whats-to-blame/mrm): MECHANICALLY RECOVERED MEAT (MRM) According to many experts mechanically recovered meat (MRM) could be the major culprit with individuals developing vCJD. This beef derivative/product and I say that with a great deal of sarcasm and distress was the most infectious material that was in the food chain during the BSE scandal, it was also the product that was fed to our most vulnerable on a consistent and regular basis. MRM Mechanically Recovered Meat also called reclaimed meat, retrieved meat was used in school meals, baby food, hospital meals and nursing homes as well as feeding our Armed Forces and prisons. […]
- [List of others](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/list-of-others): LIST OF OTHERS ELIZABETH ATTRIDGE (MAFF under secretary responsible for animal health and veterinary group 1989-1991) RICHARD CARDEN (MAFF DEP secretary head of food safety directorate from (1994) ROBERT LOWSON (Head of MAFF animal health, disease control division 1991-93, SEAC secretariat) SIR DEREK ANDREWS (MAFF permanent secretary   (1987-93) DR ALISA WIGHT (Department of health lead on BSE from 1991 SEAC observer) Andrew dying vcjd aged 24 THOMAS EDDY (MAFF head of animal health (disease control) AND SEAC secretariat from 1993) M H BAKER (Department of education and science schools branch) DR BERNARD WILLIAMS (Assistant chief veterinary officer head of […]
- [Richard Packer](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/richard-packer): Richard Packer Permanent Secretary at MAFF 1993-2000 In his statement to the Phillips inquiry Richard Packer was asked why he did not put contingency plans in place to protect human health from BSE. He replied: “The case of BSE in late 1995 early 1996 was quite different. Most of the potential scientific facts were (and many still remain) unknown.” Yet as far back as October 1988 BSE was transmitted to mice following the inoculation of infected brain tissue. Two months later BSE was officially-designated as a ‘zoonosis ‘ – a disease which can be passed from animals to humans. Richard […]
- [Stephen Dorrell](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/stephen-dorrell):   Stephen Dorrell Health Secretary 1995-1997 2009 Criticism of business practices  Dorrell’s family run business, a clothing firm called Faithful  went into prepack administration. Dorrell and his wife retrieved their pensions but no other funds paid into pension scheme. With pension deficit of almost £3 million.  Business re-named and firm merged with Wensum. Dorrell and his family remain financially very comfortable whilst creditors, shareholders and tax payer left with debts unpaid.  June 2010 Dorrell Elected Chairman of the Health Select Committee November 2012 Expenses investigation (selling  his London flat to ‘friends’ who owned a chain of nursing homes then renting […]
- [Douglas Hogg](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/douglas-hogg): Douglas Hogg Minister of MAFF 1995-97 Viscount Hailsham Given peerage Lord Hogg ( 2015) I am deeply offended and distressed that days before what would have been my Andrews birthday (2nd September 2015) Douglas Hogg has been made a peer in the House of Lords, for fiddling his MPs expenses and whose deliberate actions unlawfully killed my only son, due to the human form of mad cow disease. From the start of his tenure as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Douglas Hogg’s mantra was “Beef is safe”. He claimed there was no evidence of a link between BSE and […]
- [Colin Maclean](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/colin-maclean): Colin Maclean OBE Veterinary Surgeon Director General of the Meat and Livestock Commission (1992-1998) (Tech Dir 1988-92) Deputy Manager Glaxo Global Animal Business ( see ‘ whats to blame?’ vaccines/ Glaxo)  MemberUK animal research establishments/centres Non executive director of ‘solutions for public health’  Fellow Royal Veterinary Surgeons Specialist Trustee Moorfields Eye Hospital London (2016 –  ) Throughout the BSE crisis Maclean was a high-profile establishment figurehead. As Director of the Meat and Livestock Commission he constantly gave “unqualified assurances” (Phillips Inquiry) that British beef was safe to eat. As the scandal deepened he stated categorically that: “All types of offal […]
- [Kenneth Calman](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/kenneth-calman):   Kenneth Calman Chief Medical Officer (1991-98) In June 1992 the Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth Calman told the British Public “There is no evidence of a causal link between BSE in  cattle and CJD in humans.” He repeated similar statements throughout his term of office which included 1995, the same year that The Lancet identified 19-year-old Stephen Churchill as one of the first vCJD victims , someone who had died through eating infected beef. During his questioning by the BSE inquiry in 1998, Dr Calman did not take personal responsibility. Instead, he accused Ministers in MAFF of “downplaying” the […]
- [Keith Meldrum](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/keith-meldrum):     Keith Meldrum The Chief Veterinary Officer 1988-1997 As Chief Veterinary Officer, Keith Meldrum was charged with keeping British beef safe for human consumption, however his responses to the Phillips Inquiry and my ongoing investigations highlight the gaping hole between public propaganda and reality. The Inquiry looked at the role of the Hygiene Veterinarians whose job it was to check that no infectious material was getting into the food chain. Meldrum admitted that from September 1990 until 1994 visits to slaughterhouses which exported to the Europe were only carried out once a month, and that slaughterhouses serving the UK […]
- [Tyrrell Report Pg2](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/tyrell-report-pg2): THE TYRRELL REPORT      (page 2) The Tyrrell Committee was set up in 1988, its significant role was to advise the UK Government regarding BSE and its consequences. The ordinary man and woman in the street would also have assumed the Tyrrell Committee was put together to protect the UK populations health, to prevent humans from contracting BSE via infected bovine material in the human food and medicine chain. This could not have been further from the truth the committee was set up to pay ‘lip service’ to an increasingly worried public but its main role was to help the UK […]
- [Tyrrell Report Pg1](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/tyrell-report-pg1): THE TYRRELL REPORT (page 1) The Tyrrell Report was published jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Health. The committee met in 1988. Its role was to advise the Government on research regarding Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs).   Members of the Committee included: Dr William Watson from the Government’s Central Veterinary Lab (CVL) (see Ray Bradley) This is the same Dr Watson who had received a memo about the first recorded cow with BSE back in 1986. It was from the head of CVL, Ray Bradley, who recognised a potential threat to human health. The memo said: […]
- [Southwood Comm.](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/southwood-comm): THE SOUTHWOOD COMMITTEE   In May 1988 a working party was established to examine what implications BSE had on animals and “possible” human health. The soft use of the word “possible” highlights the manipulation of words and language that was used throughout the BSE scandal to reassure the UK public. Nearly four years had passed since the first recorded case of BSE and over that time there was mounting evidence of the danger posed by BSE. Despite this the Government were still weaving a web of positive propaganda to bolster the meat industry, putting a higher value on profit and […]
- [J MacGregor Pg2](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/j-macgregor-pg2):   John MacGregor Minister of Agriculture 1987-89 In December 1987, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu wrote to the Minister of Agriculture John MacGregor. Lord Montagu was concerned and rightly worried over the threat BSE posed to human health if diseased cattle went into the food chain. Lord Montagu, a land owner, was so concerned over the way the government was handling and suppressing the threat to human health he wrote in his letter to MacGregor. ‘There is nothing which prevents veterinary officers from certifying the carcass of an animal infected with this disease (BSE) as fit for human consumption. I understand […]
- [J MacGregor Pg1](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/j-macgregor-pg1):   John  MacGregor Minister of Agriculture 1987-89 MacGregor and his deputy John Gummer (who took over as Minister in 1989) had the full support of the Government. They were able to hand-pick the scientific advisors writing reports used to formulate and support Government Policy. These officially-sanctioned reports are the ones which people hide behind when accountability is demanded. They all made the impossible claim, that British beef was safe. Officials like to say “We were only following advice” or “We didn’t know” but the evidence was out there, and the Government chose to ignore it. Mothers who have also lost […]
- [Donald Acheson](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/donald-acheson): Sir Donald Acheson 1983-1991 Chief Medical Officer Physician Chronic Disease Epidemiologist One of Sir Donald Acheson’s specialities was the use of records and statistics in medical research. He’d been Chief Medical Officer since 1983, with vast amounts of information at his fingertips, but he told the BSE Inquiry that he “Had never heard of BSE until March 1988” even though it had been an “identifiable disease” for over 17 months. This was all the more surprising given his last job – from 1979 to 1983 he was Director of the Medical research Council in Environmental Epidemiology. Throughout the BSE scandal […]
- [William Rees](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/william-rees): William Rees Chief Veterinary Officer 1980-1988 William Rees was one of the most powerful men in MAFF and from the earliest days of the BSE scandal, he deliberately held back information which could have been damaging to the meat trade. On June 1st 1987 he sent a document to Donald Thompson, MAFF’s Parliamentary Secretary, about BSE. He said “irresponsible or ill-informed publicity is likely to be unhelpful since it might lead to hysterical demands for immediate, draconian government measures and could lead to a rejection of UK exports“. The severity of his tone highlights how seriously he took the threat […]
- [Ray Bradley](https://justice4andy.com/whos-to-blame-2/ray-bradley): Ray Bradley Head of Pathology Government Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) 1984 Dr William Watson CVL Director Dr Brian Shreeve Director of Research   Christine filming at Pitsham Farm   When country Vet David Bee visited a sick cow just before Christmas 1984 he knew he had found something new and worrying. The animal was highly distressed and had to be put down. Its tissues were sent for diagnosis to the local VI centre in Itchen Abbas. When another cow from the same farm became seriously ill in the Spring of 1985, David Bee was even more alarmed. He recorded his findings and immediately sent […]
- [John Major Pg2](https://justice4andy.com/john-major-pg2): Prime Minister 1990-1997 2005 made a knight now Sir John Major Cashing in on after dinner speaking, earns £25,000 per event ( 2016- ) I have had lengthy discussions with Beryl Rimmer grandmother and guardian of Victoria Rimmer who was reported as the very first victim of vCJD. Vicky became ill during John Majors tenure. I I have spoken on many occasions with Beryl and Vicky’s family sharing the horrific experience of loosing a beloved child to vcjd. Beryl is concise, clear and never wavers from the facts and memories surrounding Vicky’s last days. Victoria Ruth Rimmer was just 15 […]
- [John Major Pg1](https://justice4andy.com/john-major-pg1): John Major, Prime Minister 1990-1997 2005 made a knight now Sir John Major Huge income as after dinner speaker, asking £25,000 for one engagement (2016- ) In 1993 Victoria Rimmer from Buckley, North Wales developed vCJD. Her guardian Beryl was visited by a doctor from the Government-backed CJD Surveillance unit based in Edinburgh. The Doctor took notes and examined Vicky. Beryl was told by the doctor (Daily Mirror January 25th 1994) “that she should not make her granddaughter’s plight public as she should think of the economy and the Common Market”. With little support Beryl financed her beloved granddaughters illness […]
- [M Thatcher Pg2](https://justice4andy.com/m-thatcher-pg2): Prime Minister 1979-1990 Margaret Thatcher’s memory and ability to store and collate knowledge was huge. This makes it all the more damning that she endorsed the safety of British beef again and again throughout BSE. Her degree in Chemistry from Oxford University meant she was also trained scientifically and would have been fully aware of the lethal pathology of TSEs Transmissible Spongiform diseases which by their very title mean TRANSMISSIBLE… There are no excuses. Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister lied and covered up the dangers of BSE allowing the most infectious materials to feed UK infants and children for years, […]
- [M Thatcher Pg1](https://justice4andy.com/m-thatcher-pg1): Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister 1979-1990 Died 8th April 2013 aged 87. The early years of the BSE scandal took place under Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. With a culture of ruthless cutting of public spending, business given a free reign and the “iron lady” having an iron grip on the civil service and the Cabinet. Thatcher was the Governnment. A political environment of deference and discretion where committees worked by consensus and informality. The 1980 Education Act of Thatchers Government removed the requirement to provide school meals of ANY nutritional standard. School Meals were opened up to Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) obliging […]
- [Kenneth Clarke2](https://justice4andy.com/kenneth-clarke2): Health Secretary 1988-1990 Minister of Health 1982-1985 Justice Minister May 2010-September 2012 Minister ‘without portfolio’ September 2012   On the 12th May 2010, Kenneth Clarke was appointed Lord Chancellor and Head of the Justice Department in the new Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government. As a mother who has lost a child unlawfully to vCJD, I am appalled at this appointment and have written to Clarke, Cameron and Clegg demanding Clarke’s resignation. Kenneth Clarke is now in charge of the courts, law making, freedom of information, prisons and his role is seen as strengthening democracy and human rights. In his […]
- [Kenneth Clarke1](https://justice4andy.com/kenneth-clarke1): Kenneth Clarke Health Secretary 1988-1990 Minister of Health 1982-1985 Lord Chancellor Justice Minister  May 2010-September 2012 Minister ‘without portfolio’ September 2012 Resigns cabinet post 15th July 2014 C Chairman (non-ex) Unichem Director (non ex) Independent News and Media (UK) March 16th 2016 nets £430,000 in book deal for his memoir, ‘Kind of blue’ by publisher Macmillian During the weeks before and just after the publication of Kenneth Clarkes book (October 2016) he received huge amounts of cash for newspaper interviews, TV and Radio slots about his book, life and decisions during his tenure as MP and Ministerial roles. Not once […]
- [John Gummer pg3](https://justice4andy.com/john-gummer-pg3): John Selwyn Gummer Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) (1989-1993) Junior Minister of Agriculture (1985-1988) n 2010 John Gummer aged 70 decided to step down from being an MP, he was duly rewarded for his corruption throughout BSE by being made a member of the House of Lords. His brother Peter is head of PR firm Huntsworth Group who have a number of lobbying organisations under its wing, many of whom influence government policy. Peter Gummer is also a member of the House of Lords and is not only President of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s constituency party but […]
- [John Gummer pg2](https://justice4andy.com/john-gummer-pg2): John Selwyn Gummer Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) (1989-1993) Junior Minister of Agriculture (1985-1988) Made a peer now Lord Deben, Chair of UK’s Committee on Climate Change (2016) Throughout his tenure as Agriculture Minister John Gummer was urged by many independent scientists and experts to put human health before profit. Stephen Dealler who lost funding due to speaking out told me “Even when we had enough evidence to proof the dangers of BSE MAFF wouldn’t listen. I know of a scientist who was threatened with prison if he talked about his findings outside of Whitehall” (May 2008). It […]
- [John Gummer pg1](https://justice4andy.com/john_gummer_pg1_4): John Selwyn Gummer  2022 “Reputation Washing” Above appeared in Daily Mail in 2024  February 2019 John Gummer conflict of interest Mail on Sunday David Rose www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6661513/Climate-Change…  Tory peer in £600,000 conflict of interest: Climate Change chief John Gummer faces calls to quit over payments from ‘green businesses’ to his family firm where he famously fed a beef burger to his daughter during the height of the BSE crisis, is a director Conservative peer’s family-run consultancy been paid huge sums by businesses  MPs say Mr Gummer should have declared the payments – but he never has  He last night denied conflict […]
- [A final word](https://justice4andy.com/a_final_word_16):   A FINAL WORD FROM ANDREW’S MUM  The BSE scandal transmitted a terrible human tragedy – vCJD. It affects predominantly younger people, however it has also killed people as young as 12 years old and pensioners in their late 60’s. Many more cases of vCJD are not being recorded and are being mis diagnosed as dementia or age related disease. VCJD is an horrific disease that has all the symptoms of every possible terminal illness you can imagine. Its agent, BSE, was given free-reign again and again to enter the food chain. BSE has not gone away and continues to […]
- [Related quotes](https://justice4andy.com/related_quotes_29): RELATED QUOTES Professor Krebs (Food Standards Agency) admitted that he did not consume meat during the period when MAFF the MLC and Farming interests were all pronouncing its safety. Krebs even supported his wife, a school governor, in trying to get beef and beef products removed from menus in school catering. Roy Hattersley, The Guardian October 28 2000, in an article about the ministers involved in the BSE crisis wrote, “The lie was collective.”  He continued “its been a bad one (week) for publicly accountable government” Andrew’s Consultant Dr McMonagle Southampton Hospital, Neurology Department told me: “A stray burger did […]
- [Press coverage](https://justice4andy.com/press_coverage_20): Friday 5th April 2019 UK Film  5*****review of major documentary Cows, cash and cover-ups? investigating vcjd. Christine Lord Associate Producer UK Film Review reviewed Cows, Cash & Cover-ups https://www.ukfilmreview.co.uk/blog/cows-cash-cover-ups-investigating-vcjd-film-review ‘this film is a hard watch but a necessary one and it asks some serious questions about what goes in our food,  how much we know about this (and for that matter…anything), the international aspects of meat management and the reprehensible ethics of those running the show’ ‘This is not so much a film as a sounding of the alarm and it is a vital, urgent and frightening raising of an issue […]
- [Documents #2](https://justice4andy.com/new_documents_45): documents continued Below is a letter I received from BRAKES who supplied school meals during the 1980s and 1990s and still provide meals to schools and hospitals. I asked Brakes if they ever used MRM mechanically recovered meat in their school meal products. Below is their reply where they state ‘Brakes now do not allow its use (MRM) in our own brand products’. FROM THIS I WOULD ASSUME AT ONE TIME THEY DID USE MRM IN THEIR OWN BRAND PRODUCTS.Note the letter has been written and signed by Adrian Whitehead their Group Legal Director and the tone asking me why […]
- [Friends of Andy](https://justice4andy.com/friends-of-andy): Letters A few words from Andrews friends I started work at talkSPORT in July 2001, the first time I met Andy was 12th of September 2001, leaning into the 13th as it was the overnight shift. It was a horrible time with the twin towers disaster. But it was good to have Andy and Sean there in the control room with me. We shared some moments of worry and concern, it was a strange feeling in the studio of not really knowing what to talk about, what would you say at a time like that? As time moved on I […]
- [Documentaries](https://justice4andy.com/documentaries_50): TV Documentaries Christine’s latest documentary feature film, ‘Cows, cash and cover-ups? is now available on Amazon prime    If you prefer to watch the award winning BBC1  documentary in five parts, you can find them below. You will also find several more videos on YouTube, as well, about victims all over the world. 
- [Blood safety](https://justice4andy.com/blood-safety):   Blood Safety WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PREVENT FURTHER DEATHS FROM VCJD AND KEEP OUR BLOOD SUPPLY AND YOUR FAMILIES SAFE……. ‘1 in 2,000 of the UK’ now carry or incubate Human BSE, mad cow disease. Many of these people will be blood donors, hospital patients. Donated blood in the UK is not screened or free of vCJD. ‘The easiest way of transmitting vCJD to an individual is through blood’ Professor John Collinge, World Expert vCJD, UCL (December 8th 2009) All individual blood donors should be screened for vCJD before they give blood. Medical experts and scientists are predicting […]
- [What's to blame?](https://justice4andy.com/whats-to-blame): whats to blame?
- [About Andrew](https://justice4andy.com/about_andrew_1): Andrew (as his mum I always used his full name) Black was born in Portsmouth Hampshire. At nearly 8lbs with a shock of dark hair and violet eyes he was a healthy and very strong baby. As a toddler we nicknamed him “super baby” as he was so strong he could lift chairs with one arm. Full of energy and curiosity, he was always laughing and loved lots of cuddles. This is the eulogy I wrote for Andrew’s funeral service at Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral, he was buried just four days before Christmas on 21st December 2007. My Wonderful Andrew From […]
- [Campaign Goals](https://justice4andy.com/campaign_goals_70): The four main goals of the campaign have never changed : 1. A criminal investigation and punishment for those responsible for BSE and its lethal human pathogen vCJD 2. Introduction of individual screening tests for blood donors and hospital patients to prevent future and further deaths of vCJD through person to person/secondary transmission. 3. To make sure that BSE infected material no longer enters the human food or medicine chain. Improving the safety and standard of food and medicines. 4. Research by the UK Government into atypical dementia, amid concerns that vCJD is being missed particularly in older people.  UPDATES: […]
- [Contact](https://justice4andy.com/contact_us_15-2): Please contact Christine at: mschristinelord@aol.com  (Please cut and paste into your email client) Thank you


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