Former Deputy Chief Medical Officer Sir Jonathan Van-Tam says his family "were threatened with having their throats cut" during the pandemic. He told the Covid inquiry that the "extremely hateful messages" led to the police getting involved, making him consider stepping down from his role. He left the post at the end of March last year. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 I did not expect my family to be threatened with having their throats cut.
00:06 I did not expect the police to have to say, "Will you move out in the middle of the night?"
00:12 "In the middle of the evening?"
00:14 "Will you move out for a few days while we look at this and potentially make some arrests?"
00:19 We didn't move out because of the cat, as it happened.
00:22 We didn't want to leave the cat.
00:24 But it was a very stressful time indeed.