This is one of many emails I have been receiving. This courageous lady has given me permission to share her letter to an MP with you.

January 27th 2022
 
Dear John Cryer MP,

I am one of your constituents who is asking you for help. I am 86 years old, in poor health, and I was asked to visit the police station in October 2021, this was to be interviewed. This interview was recorded and since then I have been waiting in anticipation, worrying and waking up at all hours waiting for that knock at the door or a letter to fall. I have not been advised whether it will be going to Crown Prosecution Service or if I will receive a caution. I keep ringing the station and asking questions and a few days ago I was advised that it would probably be a caution. To accept a caution, means accepting I am guilty, my details will go onto a police data base and I do not believe that I have committed a crime.

You are probably wondering what heinous crime has been committed by an 86 old? For some unknown reason, my daughter decided that I should not continue my safe and loving relationships with my darling grandchildren. This happened shortly after my husband died, we had a relationship of 49 years and I can only describe this whole experience, as a double bereavement. Every day is different, as the emotions scale the heights of Mount Everest, I feel aimless and so very empty without my grandchildren.  Sometimes, I feel as if I have no wish to continue, this burden is heavy and it follows me around like my shadow, only this one is full of despair.

MY CRIME: Harassment - Let me tell what I did and you decide if this constitutes harassment. I wrote two loving letters to my daughter trying to reconcile and out of desperation, I attempted to speak to my granddaughter. You cannot simply throw loved ones out of your heart and minds, and so I had attempted to see my grandchildren before, but these occasions were not mentioned during my police interview. I heard that my granddaughter, then aged eleven said “That’s my grandma and my mummy says I must not speak to her, but I miss her and don’t know what to do”.

I am messaging you because Jasvinder Sanghera CBE has started a petition for the rights of grandchildren to see their grandparents, and the law has to be changed. THIS IS WHERE YOUR HELP IS NEEDED.  The number of grandparents similarly affected is growing and overwhelming. I am sending petition details to you separately as I don’t know how to attach. Please read what Jasvinder has to say and the thousands of comments of the many not the few.

Over 30,000; have signed in less than four weeks. As a caring MP and someone in the position of bringing this to the attention of decision makers, please act as soon as possible while I have time, as I do not have time on my side and my health is not improving.

My Plea: Keep signing and sharing, my next update will be a standard letter for your MP. We need strength in numbers, let's make our politicians do the job they have been put there to do.