Son ‘astounded’ at new information revealed at inquirypublished at 13:08 GMT<\/p>\n
13:08 GMT<\/p>\n
James Coates has read a statement to the inquiry. <\/p>\n
He said: “Since
\nthe inquiry began just over four weeks ago, the amount of new information
\nthat has surfaced astounds me. <\/p>\n
“Over the last two and half years, I thought I’d
\nheard it all – from missed opportunities, misconduct, clerical mistakes, institutional
\nlaziness, but unfortunately more revelations are coming out each week.”<\/p>\n
He said he believed “we should have a fair trial, and that my dad’s killer should answer his heinous crimes in a court of law”.<\/p>\n
“My innocent
\nfather isn’t here to see justice and it’s a hard pill to swallow knowing his
\nattacker won’t spend any time behind bars,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I feel for the people of Nottingham who put their trust into police, the NHS and the mental health [services] who have
\ncontinued to fail them.” <\/p>\n
James said since his father’s death, he had continued to struggle, now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and was undergoing therapy. <\/p>\n
He added becoming close to the other bereaved families over the last few years had been a huge help to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Son ‘astounded’ at new information revealed at inquirypublished at 13:08 GMT 13:08 GMT James Coates has read a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-492735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}