A WIDOWER has sued AstraZeneca after his BBC presenter wife died from Covid-19 vaccine complications.
Dad-of-one Gareth Eve said he has “no alternative” but to launch legal action against the UK-based pharmaceutical giant.
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His wife Lisa Shaw, 44, died from “vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia” in May 2021, a week after getting her first Covid jab.
The BBC Radio Newcastle worker was one of dozens of Brits who lost their lives allegedly because of the vaccine.
The side effect that killed them is extremely rare.
Gareth’s lawyers sent pre-action protocol letters to AstraZeneca last year on behalf of nearly 75 people, the BBC reports.
He spent the last two years trying to “engage with the government, MPs and three prime ministers” but no one has “reached out”, Gareth claimed.
He said all he wanted was “some sort of acknowledgment or recognition that these deaths have occurred”.
Newcastle coroner Karen Dilks found Lisa had died as a result of the vaccine in August 2021.
Gareth said: “These things have happened to too many people and we’re made to feel like it’s a dirty secret, that we’re talking about something we shouldn’t be talking about.”
The Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was the first approved for use in the UK in September 2020.
The government ordered 100 million doses for its vaccine programme.
The claimants are taking legal action under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 as well as claiming payment under the government’s Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
Solicitor Peter Todd from Scott-Moncrieff and Associates, which is acting for the claimants, claimed the jab was a “defective product in that it was not as safe as consumers generally were reasonably entitled to expect”.
He told the SunOnline: “We’ve limited the claim to people with clots and low platelets. The government gave AstraZeneca indemnity for any claims.
“We have to bring the claim against AstraZeneca but they don’t really have any liability, it’s the government.”
There were 81 deaths and 450 serious injuries including amputations, strokes, heart attacks and serious clots, he revealed.
He added: “AstraZeneca will say that you can’t expect any medicine to be entirely free from any risk and that overall the vaccines saved millions of lives. They’ll say consumers have to accept some risk.
“I don’t think they’ll deny the injuries that were suffered but they will say it’s unfortunate. They’ll say it doesn’t mean they’re legally liable to pay any compensation.”
Each claimant could eventually be in line for at least £15,000 in compensation, Mr Todd claimed.
It means if the government is held liable the action could cost the taxpayer at least £1.12million.
The SunOnline has contacted AstraZeneca and the Department for Health and Social Care for comment.
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