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DEAR PRIME MINISTER - JUSTICE FOR ZANE The most toxic cover up of them all

9/2/2023

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DEAR PRIME MINISTER - JUSTICE FOR ZANE 
The most toxic cover up of them all
 
Wednesday 8 February 2023
15.30 at 10 Downing Street
 
Today, on the ninth anniversary of the death of their 7-year-old son, Zane, Kye and Nicole Gbangbola, Zane’s Mummy and Daddy, have handed in a letter to Rishi Sunak, in the wake of further non-action from him and his government. Natalie Bennett, Green Party Peer, who has been supporting the campaign for the Truth About Zane, joined them outside No 10.
 
On 21st October last year, which would have been Zane’s 16th birthday, Kye and Nicole, alongside Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, handed in a petition to No 10, signed by over 117,000 people, calling for an Independent Panel Inquiry into Zane’s death. 
 
Kye, Nicole, Matt Wrack and their thousands of supporters, including Andy Burnham and Sir Keir Starmer, had hoped for a positive response – that the government would at last do the right thing and give Zane the justice he deserves. Instead, Kye and Nicole have not even received an acknowledgement of their petition. Neither has Rishi Sunak replied to a letter they addressed to him, personally.
 
So, on this most painful of days, the anniversary of their son’s death, Kye and Nicole are trying again…Below is the full text of the letter to Rishi Sunak that they handed in today.
 
Dear Rishi Sunak,
Today is the ninth anniversary of the death of Zane Gbangbola, our beloved son, who was killed during the terrible River Thames flooding, in Chertsey, in 2014.
Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) was detected in our riverside home by the Surrey Fire Service’s HAZMAT team on the 8th February 2014, the night Zane died, not once, but on three separate sweeps of our house. The HCN was detected at very high levels, as stated in Public Health England’s National Incidents Recording System.
It was known by the council that a contaminated landfill site lay behind our home. Yet, despite the existence of several reports about this site, identifying a ‘high risk of migrating landfill gasses capable of causing significant harm, serious injury and death’, no investigation into the site being the source of the HCN contamination detected was undertaken.
At Zane’s Inquest, held in June 2016, the Coroner determined that Zane’s death was caused by Carbon Monoxide poisoning, despite the fact that no Carbon Monoxide (CO) had been detected at the incident by the HAZMAT team during any of their sweeps and that only Hydrogen Cyanide had been found.
In his verdict, the Coroner said that the source of the CO came from a faulty petrol pump, which he claimed was in operation at our house at the time. This was not true. We always said, categorically, that we had not used that faulty pump. And the Surrey Fire Service’s HAZMAT team confirmed the truth of what we said. When they detected HCN in our house, they had also logged that the said petrol pump was cold and had not been in use.
Since the tragedy, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has consistently stood at our side in our demand for the truth, and for a full and fearless Independent Panel Inquiry for Zane to uncover it.
On 21st October last year, which would have been Zane’s sixteenth birthday, we delivered our petition, signed by over 117.000 people, demanding an Independent Panel Inquiry into Zane’s death. Our petition hand-in coincided with the imminent departure of Liz Truss from the office that you now hold.
Your government’s response to our 117,000 strong petition has been to ignore it. We received a letter from Rebecca Pow MP at DEFRA simply repeating what she’d said in a letter she wrote in 2020, when she responded to Spelthorne Borough Council’s demand for an Independent Panel Inquiry for Zane. Ms Pow wrote then, as now: 
‘If Zane's parents believe that there is new evidence available, they should consider making an application to the Attorney General asking her to apply to the High Court to quash the inquest and order a fresh coroner investigation.’ 
In her letter to us, Ms Pow made no acknowledgement of the fact that our petition had been handed in to No.10 Downing Street and no acknowledgement of the 117,000 people who have voiced their demand for an Independent Panel Inquiry for Zane. 
Furthermore, we have had no acknowledgement from you, Prime Minister, although we wrote to you on 21st December 2022. 
Will you please now do the right thing and grant Zane Gbangbola the Independent Panel Inquiry he deserves, to uncover the truth about what happened to him and deliver the justice that he and all citizens deserve? 
We look forward to your reply.
END

26 Comments
Anne Beach
9/2/2023 05:36:10 am

Unbelievable that these parents are tormented by the lies and how the truth has been ignored.

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Christopher Hardy
11/2/2023 06:01:29 am

You have the power to right this wrong. All it akes for injustice to continue is for a good person, you with the power, to remain silent. Would you accept this injustice for your child?

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Heather Edmondson link
10/2/2023 01:12:57 pm

Please please help these parents get a true verdict, I understand the fire brigade have stood by them and in light of this the Coroners verdict should be changed to the true cause of Zanes death this has gone on too long now for his parents. Please please sort this out urgently as you would if it were your own son. You would want the truth published.

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David Wilson
10/2/2023 01:20:28 pm

I think this government should do the right thing, and address this tragedy immediately.

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Sarah Strong
10/2/2023 01:28:03 pm

Please respond to Zane’s parents as a matter of concscious, compassion and a human rights issue

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Gill
10/2/2023 01:43:12 pm

I have been profoundly sad to read that no response has been received from, and no action taken by, the government to the reasonable requests of Zane's determined parents. Is the next step not to do what Rebecca Pow has suggested? That is: ‘If Zane's parents believe that there is new evidence available, they should consider making an application to the Attorney General asking her to apply to the High Court to quash the inquest and order a fresh coroner investigation.’ I wonder if experienced lawyers at The Good Law Project might be able to advise you. They have had some successes in challenging this wretched government. Try goodlawproject.org

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Deborah Mallender
10/2/2023 02:08:12 pm

Everyone wants the authorities to face the truth. Landfill near to houses is the same as placing houses near a chemical dump. Lack of regulation and more importantly the policing of regulations is at the root cause of this.

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Jackie White
10/2/2023 02:46:33 pm

Why is nobody listening to Zanes family.An innocent little boy,aged 7 and his family went to bed and he died in what should have been his safe place,and his father has been left paralysed and in a wheelchair due to the fact that they had been poisened as they slept.Not by carbon monoxide but by hydrogen cyanide. THE FAMILY and 117,000.00_people that signed a petition wants and deserves,a new inquest into the truth of why Zane died.Please do the right thing listen to the public,

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Marion Milnes
10/2/2023 09:47:41 pm

This is inhumane. We have a responsibility to see that Zane’s Parents are treated with the respect they deserve. Come on Mr. Sunak, do the right thing and order an inquiry into the death of little Zane (he was ‘little’ when I first became aware of this appalling tragedy). It’s dragged on long enough.

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Kathryn Bond
10/2/2023 11:47:09 pm

Have you tried submitting requests under the Freedom of Information act to get all information pertaining to the incident? Just a thought…. Wishing you all the best and hope this tragic incident gets proper investigation and resolution soon. I’m so sorry for your loss.

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Ann North
11/2/2023 12:50:52 am

Why, why, why does this government continue to ignore the request for an Independent Panel inquiry? It’s disgraceful and only serves to put a stain on this government’s record. For goodness sake, do the right thing and don’t allow any more time to elapse! 9 years of asking - shameful!

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Denise Fowler
11/2/2023 12:55:29 am

Mr Sunak, Prime Minister,
Please I beg you to do the humane thing and at least reply to Zane's Parents and order an enquiry into the terrible origin of Zane's death'
With hope
Yours sincerely

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Richard Knight
11/2/2023 01:17:14 am

I am so sorry to hear this. It must be very difficult to be met by this wall of silence and denial., Then on top of it ti have the real evidence ignored and dismissed. I wish you well and send you love.
This is not only tragic for Zane's parents but by not handling the situation it leaves the possibility of a recurrence. It is negligent. I hope the government intervenes.

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Richard. A O'Grady
11/2/2023 02:04:16 am

In 13 years this Tory Govt doesn't care for "normal" people, I wish you the best of luck. Austerity and Brexit the Silent Killers in our midst.

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Deborah V
11/2/2023 02:34:47 am

The ongoing tragedy of this situation is difficult to read about, and I can’t imagine the unbearable pain and horror that poor Zane’s family are having to live with day in and day out. Well done to the Fire Brigade’s Union for standing up in support of them, and for continually ‘running towards’ those in need and not turning a blind eye, as the government seem to be doing in this case. Let’s keep asking for justice until our voices are heard. We do this for Zane and for his family who are suffering.

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Faja Newman
11/2/2023 02:37:25 am

This cannot be swept under the carpet or ignored as theechanisim currently used to deal with all humanitarian issues by this government. Turning a blind eye to cries for justice will eventually rot the carpet from under your feet. People are more than tired of the injustice this government perpetrates in the line of duty. A life has been lost, the danger continues to be present a fily grieve. Delegate someone responsible to deal with this. You are capable , you have not much to choose from in your carbonate who display your gift of capability, but try. You are only as strong as your weakestembers,,, you are in peril and so are we.

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Pat Weeks
11/2/2023 06:14:18 am

There can be but one explanation. They do not want an independent inquiry as they know what it will find which will lead to a precedent case & trigger a spate of claims by other victims of similar incidents, then they will suddenly be forced to legislate not to mention enforce laws concerning landfills & other waste disposal, think sewage, none of which fits the modus operandi of the current Tory party paradigm of private profit before all else.

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Hugh Edwards
11/2/2023 08:56:00 am

This government acts as though we were a banana growing country & will never act regarding anything that does not meet the requirements of their asgenda.

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Lin
11/2/2023 12:24:30 pm

This is unbelievable !!How can they do nothing ? I can't imagine what this family are going through. Keep fighting for Zane Theres many of the public that stand with you .

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Keith Mussington
12/2/2023 04:15:04 pm

Dear Prime Minister Sunak,

How sad, how rude, how heartless, how unjust!
How do you sleep!?

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Peter Copestake
12/2/2023 05:26:21 pm

Say something,Prime Minister, or have you nothing to say? How pathetic!

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Sandra
13/2/2023 01:43:17 am

Listened to the Radio 4 series Buried concerning dangerous landfill. I remain with you in your endless task about getting our Government to do the right thing. Unfortunately Governments have a long standing resistance to all these injustices

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Susan Korda
17/2/2023 11:30:01 am

Re the very sad situation re Zane and his family, are we living in a democracy or are we sadly dipping into the equivalent of a dictatorship .
I am not a political person, but am alarmed at what appears to be happening in the UK, when the voice of so many (including Zane and his family ) are not being heard. His death is indeed a tragedy and highlights the importance of listening to the evidence and the holding to account those involved . Please may the safeguards that are needed be put in place to pprotect the young and the vulnerable.

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Lee Rolf link
11/3/2023 07:43:35 am

Good luck, i hope you get justice in the coming future, i understand your torment ..

I raised worrying Concerns with my local authorities, There response was a gaging order placed on, local ward councillers/ MPs allowed this to happen

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Hugh Edwards
11/3/2023 09:22:12 am

What has happened to this country & the standard of its government?

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Lin
11/3/2023 03:34:56 pm

What a disgrace , those parents deserve the truth !’ Government people don’t live in our world!!

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