A bereaved daughter says "no amount of money" can bring her mother back after she died in a care home during the early stages of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Bridget Spooner was speaking after it was revealed legal firm Leigh Day was representing a number of families of people who died in care homes and hospitals.
The are suing the Government claiming it failed to protect them under the Human Rights Act.
But Mrs Spooner has "mixed emotions" after learning of the legal action, saying it would only bring raw emotions to resurface.
Her mother, Margaret Norman, died on November 24, 2020, three weeks after testing positive for Covid-19 at Magdalen House Care Home in Hadleigh.
She was due to celebrate her 74th birthday just four days after her death.
At the time, her daughter told the East Anglian Daily Times of the "devastating" reality of not being able to hold her mother's hand as she passed away.
The mother and daughter last saw each other in person over two months before Margaret's death and were forced to say their goodbyes over the phone.
Hadleigh was the third worst-hit neighbourhood in the entire country for coronavirus-related fatalities during the second wave.
Later, it emerged that 57 of a total 63 Covid-related deaths were reported by four care homes in the market town.
"No amount of money would bring mum back. There's not a price on her life," said Mrs Spooner.
"All I want is a letter of apology admitting they were having parties on the day that we laid my mum to rest."
Slamming the likes of then prime minister Boris Johnson and health secretary Matt Hancock, Mrs Spooner said: "They need to apologise for their mistakes, admit what they've done and ask for my forgiveness.
"But I could never forgive them. They took away the privilege of having someone with you when you leave this world.
"Mum was a number in their statistics. Not a person."
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