Adam Gilman, Reading Socialist Party
Seven-year-old Zane died during the floods of 2014, due to hydrogen cyanide poisoning released from an undeclared landfill site behind his family home. A cover up by local authorities and the national government has tried to blame Zane’s death on his parents. Zane died and the authorities lied.
On 21 October, dozens of supporters went to the Truth About Zane demo in London. Zane’s father Kye, who has been paralysed from the waist down since the poisoning in 2014; Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU); and Zane’s mum, Nicole, spoke.
We marched to Downing Street to deliver the 117,000-strong petition demanding an independent public inquiry. The campaign also calls for a new ‘Zane’s Law’ to expose the hundreds of undeclared and hidden landfill sites across the country.
The campaign, led by his parents, is exposing the truth about what happened to Zane, fighting for the protection of millions of homes from potential exposure to toxic landfill sites, and demanding the right to legal aid for those at the sharp end of state injustice.
Truth About Zane is supported by the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN), the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the FBU and many more unions – visit truthaboutzane.com
