MP for the Labor Party who suffered from tragic death of his daughter in a hit-and-run accident, called for improved victim support from the Ministry of the Interior after an agonizing experience.
Bootle MP Peter Dowd said he would never get over in death of his daughter Jennifer, 31, who was killed in Incident near Merseyside Labor MP home in September 2020.
NHS project manager was taken to the hospital, but died nine days later.
BUT driver confessed to hurting her death for reckless driving and failure to stop at the scene, and was jailed for 12 months in October 2021.
Dowd said he put pressure on on home Office in attempt ensure victims of crime get help They need.
“I think, for it’s important to me that people who are in this situation, families who are in this situation, get everything support they probably can, and that the prosecutor’s office is as sensitive as it can be, that the police are as sensitive as it can be,” he said.
“Recently I had a meeting with home office minister discuss sacrifice support to get some voice in among many calls for parliamentary time and organizations, and bring this message to people in these circumstances need support throughout the process.
“I think that you begin realize it’s the stress it can bring in terms of process, because as much as the police want to help they can only tell you so much.
“His one of those things where you are not know which way will for in the future and it’s traumatic and it affects you in different ways times and in different places.”
Dowd said he first became aware that something wrong when his daughter’s wife called to say that she concerned she did not come home from cycling.
“I just I immediately thought that something had happened,” he said.
When he called the local hospital, he said he immediately “thought the worst”.
When he left his home to go to the hospital he found that the road was blocked off and that the police were on scene.
“What I heard that morning was air ambulance, sirens, but I don’t know Jennifer lay a hundred yards far in road.”
