Peter Dow
Freedom lover & fighter
Hoax station to donate to family...
Kate hoax: Radio station to donate to nurse family
11 December 2012 - Jacintha Saldanha's family visited the hospital in London after meeting Keith Vaz MP
The Australian radio station whose DJs made a hoax call to a nurse who was later found dead is to give at least £320,000 to a fund for her family. ...
The DJ's radio station is only responsible for the hoax call - not the suicide.
The suicide does not reasonably follow from a hoax call to a competently run hospital. The problem was the hospital was not well run - it had a suicidal nurse on duty - that is bad management.
So the cost of compensating the suicide falls on those responsible for the suicide - not on those responsible for the hoax call.
The responsibility for the suicide is purely :-
- the fault of the kingdom for having royals in the first place when by rights the country should be a republic with no royals, no royal pregnancies and no interest in hoax calls
- the fault of the royal couple for choosing that hospital when they could have gone somewhere which didn't employ suicidal nurses
- the fault of the hospital for employing a suicidal nurse in a role she was not fit for.
- but mostly the fault of the nurse who topped herself though she can't pay her own family compensation now she is dead
So it is absurd that the DJs' radio station are paying compensation when the fault is with the kingdom for having royals, and the royal couple for using that hospital and the hospital for employing that nurse in a role she was not suitable for.
If anyone should pay up compensation it is Prince William (Duke of Cambridge) who should sell all his wedding presents and pay the proceeds to the family of the nurse and donate his civil list payments he has received as a married man to the family of the nurse. (Then Prince William should go into exile and never come back to Britain).