The campaigner who was instrumental in exposing abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital is among the patients' relatives who are currently refusing to give evidence to the inquiry.
In 2020, the then health minister Robin Swann praised the campaigner, saying: "Mr Brown's determination was central in exposing the truth about Muckamore."
"We're not going to make the same mistake as others and just ramstam into a Poundland inquiry, just for the sake of expediency," Mr Brown said. Mr Brown told Evening Extra the families were "very, very keen to make our statements" but he added they were "traumatic stories"."It's not easy just to sit down in front of a stranger and tell your story," he said.Why has the chairman refused the families' requests?
So, in order to allow the public inquiry to run concurrently with the police investigation, the inquiry team agreed to a "Memorandum of Understanding " with police and prosecutors regarding witness evidence that might be important to criminal proceedings. In response to AMF's concerns that families might be the only witnesses not permitted to choose who they made their statements to, Mr Kark said his "intention in relation to all individual members of staff accused of wrongdoing is that they will also be required to complete their statements either with CFR or the inquiry's own team".
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