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Covid: Parents ‘were treated like criminals’ as their son lay dying
Parents prevented from SLOTXO seeing their dying son in his final weeks have said they were treated “like criminals”.
Ollie Bibby, 27, from South Benfleet, Essex, died of leukaemia in hospital on 5 May, a day before Matt Hancock was filmed kissing a colleague, prompting his resignation as health secretary.
Penny Bibby said she was “livid” Mr Hancock broke social distancing rules.
University College London Hospital (UCLH) said it would “learn from her family’s experience”.
Mr Bibby, who lived at home with his mother Penny and father Simon, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, in 2016.
After four years in remission, he relapsed and needed a bone marrow transplant last summer.
In March he was admitted to UCLH, where he stayed for seven weeks until he died.
He felt like he was “in prison” and “begged” to see his family, but they were “barely allowed in” due to Covid restrictions, his mother said.
Mr Hancock resigned on Saturday after CCTV footage emerged of him kissing and embracing aide Gina Coladangelo, in breach of social distancing rules.
“I’m disgusted – for that man to be carrying on like that, and us following the rules,” said Simon Bibby.
“We feel cheated out of the last six weeks of his life.”
Mrs Bibby said: “I’m livid. We did everything we were told to do and the man that made the rules didn’t. How can that be right?”
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