At long last some four years after I filed a claim with the ombudsman, they wanted to hold a telephone call with me to explain their decision, and later wrote to me with the formal outcome.

It basically said that the NHS/DOH actions in utilising a third party, Kate Lampard, to manage the inquiry and interview the victims, fell outside the scope of the ombudsman.

It found that the DOH had erred in one of their communications, this had given me hope that I could overturn the outcome of their decision process and this was incorrect.

They awarded £500.00 in compensation for the error in communication which had given false hope.

My colleague was not surprised, it turns out that the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, did not after all have the powers to fully investigate the actions of the NHS/DOH in handling the largest abuse scandal the UK has ever known.

My MP Fabian Hamilton now dropped the case and never communicated with me about the outcome.

The threat by the DOH to take the ombudsman to court, had been taken seriously, and I would be denied justice and victim status as a result.

I wrote to the Ombudsman to say that I felt that £500 was far too great a sum for the minor clerical error they had uncovered, I suggested that £10 would be more appropriate.

I suspected that the DOH would once again forget my request for all communication by email, and that they would post me a cheque, this would have given me a chance for one final complaint. However, they emailed asking for a bank account to make the payment, so I did not reply.

I can now say with certainty, that between the legal teams on the ombudsman’s side, and the lawyers on the DOH side, they must have spent hundreds of billable hours trying to avoid communicating, and when that failed, many more hours threatening each other.

The combined bill must have been at least twenty times the sum that I would have received in compensation, had they just accepted I was a victim.

Furthermore, it had always been my intention to give any compensation I may receive to charity, so ultimately the charities were the biggest losers in this sorry matter.