



The Mirror has been campaigning for Justice for Jodey since 2017, and in 2019, Joy spoke at our annual Real Britain panel at the Labour Conference, an experience she writes about in her book. I see her in the robins that follow me around, and I tell them about what’s happening with the inquest.” “I’m that close to her still, she’s around me all the time. I still write her Christmas and birthday cards and decorate the grave. “I still keep all her photos, the same little shrine. “I went to Jodey’s grave to tell her I’ve written a book,” she says. Published next week by Mirror Books, it tells the story of her fight to hold the state accountable for Jodey’s death. Now, Joy, a great-grandmother to 16 children from Stockton, Co Durham, has written a book, A Mother’s Job. At the time of the assessment, she was in bed with pneumonia, had been in hospital, and had recently found out she had a cyst on the brain. Jodey Whiting took her own life back in 2017Īfter she failed to attend a DWP Work Capability Assessment, 42-year-old Jodey’s disability benefits were stopped.
