Dear Editor,

WHILST Cllr Ingall is correct in expressing sympathy over the unfortunate deaths of residents at Tye Green and I add my thoughts to his on that. However I have a friend with a relative who lives there and his attempt at political point scoring is inflammatory and unwanted.

His statement alleging that ‘patients returning to care homes from hospital obviously have Covid-19 because they have not been tested’ is without any evidence to support it. It is crass stupidity and scare mongering on a scale that beggar’s belief.

This is from the Leader of Harlow Council. The Council, its staff and councillors are all supposed to be working together to provide support to our residents and to be a source of accurate information to the public.

But here we are with the Leader of the Council making unsubstantiated claims and suppositions that have caused great distress to relatives.

If Cllr Ingall is going to make wildly inaccurate statements and spread untruths he should resign from his position of responsibility and authority as a councillor , he can then make as many pronouncements and comments that he wants safe in the knowledge he is unlikely to cause distress and spread fear which is what he is doing now.

Regards

Cllr Nick Churchill

Sumners and Kingsmoor Ward