Father and son David and Danny Ross have told Sky News of the “trauma” experienced through their wife and mother’s funeral service under the incompassionate restrictions surrounding the ceremony.
| Under Victoria’s harsh lockdown restrictions, only ten people are allowed to attend a funeral service, no matter the size of the venue, whilst attendees are forced to social distance. Danny Ross spoke to Sky News host Andrew Bolt about the effect the restrictions had on his mother. “She felt that she was trapped in her own home, in the end it got to her,” he said. He said he knew the service would be tough but not as tough as it was when he was actually inside the church.
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