The mother of tragic knife attack victim Barnaby Webber said she gets through every day “by my fingernails”.
Speaking to Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce on GB News, Emma Webber said: “We’ve got eight individual reports, reviews and investigations taking place about all of it and it’s utterly overwhelming.
“We as families are involved in those and obviously, we have to be. But I think our concern is now following how things have been happening and the quality of the reviews and the people leading them.
“We don’t feel it’s going to be cohesive and we don’t feel it is going to be joined up. And therefore the really urgent questions aren’t going to be answered.
“We’re now we’re now feeling that Keir Starmer was right in January where he called for a public inquiry straight away. And we listened to the Prime Minister and he said that’s not out of the question, but you know, let’s get all these urgent reviews done first and now we’re five months down the line.
“It’s becoming fairly obvious to us I think the only way we’ll ever get answers for ourselves, justice and also public safety and changes, is a public inquiry.”
She added: “It’s a very big to do list but every single thing that went wrong is because of error. The murder of my son and of Grace and Ian and the attacks on the others were entirely preventable.
“They’re the result of poor treatment, of missed opportunities, poor policing, from two forces. All of that has to be looked into because this isn’t an isolated case. Is it?
“This is going to happen again, it’s when it’s going to happen, not if, and it could happen anywhere. There’ve been very, very recent hideous cases with some similarities, which really terrify me.
“The message I’m getting from people is people do not feel safe, they don’t feel there’s adequate protection. There’s not adequate treatment for seriously ill people.”
Asked by Bev Turner how she gets through the day, Emma said: “By my fingernails, hanging on to something, if I’m honest.
“We’ve got an amazing network of people. We’ve had just an overwhelming amount of support from the public. And that really does encourage you and keeps you going, because of course we check ourselves to make sure that it’s not just us venting our grief and our anger.
“All three families, sadly, we aren’t getting the support we should be getting from the Ministry of Justice and through victim support.
“You’re given a paltry 12 sessions of therapy, when in nearly a year in my husband, my son and myself, have used those just to try and stabilise ourselves.
“We’ve now been categorically told, ‘no, that’s it. You’re on your own now. You have to go into the NHS or pay’.”
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