https://skwawkbox.org/2022/06/06/breaking-johnson-lied-when-he-claimed-he-almost-died-of-covid-investigative-prosecutor-finds/"Boris Johnson lied when he claimed he almost died of Covid, investigative prosecutor finds
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SKWAWKBOX (SW)
06/06/2022
Breaking: Johnson lied when he claimed he almost died of Covid, investigative prosecutor finds
Johnson u-turns on his claims after hospital’s attempt to hide behind patient confidentiality collapses thanks to work by Marcus J Ball
Tory PM Boris Johnson lied when he claimed in 2020 that he came so close to dying from Covid that hospital doctors ‘prepared to announce his death’, an independent prosecutor’s investigation has found – as Skwawkbox and others suggested at the time – and the evidence that proves the case was subject to Freedom of Information Act requests specifically because Johnson went public through the press with his lie, in effect waiving patient confidentiality.Marcus J Ball, who prosecuted Johnson in 2019 for misconduct in public office, spent months hunting down the details and pursuing both the hospital and the Information Commissioner as well as Number 10 and has published his findings in a long Twitter thread. Key findings include intensive care doctors confirming that the symptoms Johnson and his aides claimed come nowhere near the level at which a doctor might prepare for informing anyone that they had died or were near death – and Johnson’s own subsequent admission, after being confronted by Ball’s findings, that his infection was ‘really mild’.
And they show how the hospital’s most senior management confirmed, partly intentionally and partly inadvertently, that no such preparations had been made. Below are a few relevant sections of the 22-tweet thread:"
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