A FAMILY who have been fighting for answers for more than 30 years say they will never give up hope of getting justice for their daughter.
Fred and Pat Pye, of King George Avenue, Northwich, claim their daughter Debbie was left severely disabled when she was given a DPT injection, a fore-runner of the MMR vaccine, in the late 1960s.
Now the couple have taken their fight to the next level, writing to Conservative Party leader Michael Howard in a bid for justice for them and the other 500 families in the region who have found themselves in the same situation.
Debbie developed a condition which has never been diagnosed after she received the DPT injection, which protects against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, when she was five months old.
Fred and Pat say the change in their daughter was almost immediate. She began having spasms and mini fits and was constantly screaming. She is now 36 and needs constant care as she is profoundly deaf and cannot speak nor feed herself.
Fred and Pat, along with other couples in the region, are lobbying the government and drug companies in a bid to get someone to admit liability for the treatment which they believe is to blame for their childrens' problems.
But they have already been denied Legal Aid in their fight, and Pat admits that her options are running out.
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