Imperial scientist Neil Ferguson whose advice led to lockdown being introduced QUITS government role after ‘breaking the restrictions to meet his married lover’
- Professor Neil Ferguson, 51, previously warned UK could see 500,000 deaths if it didn’t implement lockdown
- His advice, through a report he helped produce at Imperial College, is thought to have led to the lockdown
- Prof Ferguson has been a vocal supporter of lockdown, continually telling the public to follow the restrictions
- However, he has now admitted he allowed his married lover to travel across London to visit him at least twice
- Antonia Staats, 38, lives with her husband, in his 30s, and two children in a £1.9 million house in south London
Danyal Hussain – Daily Mail May 5, 2020
The cheating professor, Prof. Neil Ferguson and Antonia Staats.
The scientist whose advice led to Boris Johnson introducing lockdown measures to combat coronavirus has resigned from his government role after he breached the restrictions to meet his married lover.
Professor Neil Ferguson, 51, allowed the woman, Antonia Staats, to travel across London to visit him at his home despite the lockdown, which he has continually stressed is vital in stopping the spread of the killer virus.
Ms Staats, 38, lives with her husband, who is in his 30s, and their two children in a £1.9 million house in south London.
She travelled across the city to visit the scientist on at least two occasions after the lockdown was announced on March 23.
Prof Ferguson, an Imperial College epidemiologist, leads a team which produced the research that led to lockdown, with their findings suggesting 500,000 Britons could die without strict restrictions being put in place.
However, despite his repeated demands that the public follow lockdown measures, he himself met with his lover on at least two occasions, according to the Telegraph.
Ms Staats visited the scientist just after he had finished two weeks of self-isolation after testing positive for the virus.
The first of Ms Staat’s visits to Prof Ferguson was on Monday March 30, a week into coronavirus lockdown.
It coincided with a public warning by Prof Ferguson that the lockdown measures would have to remain until at least June.
Ms Staats, who is a left-wing campaigner, made a second visit to Prof Ferguson on April 8, despite telling friends that she suspected her own husband, an academic in his 30s, had symptoms of coronavirus.
Why isn’t that POS not locked in for 20 years min. in Wormwood Scrubs ??
This is just an escape route rather than sack the idiot which would attract demands for a public inquiry which might still happen. Public inquiries are a waste of time, but is does allow the fake news to play their part in defusing public anger.
As far as I can see so far, he has only quit his job as a Government adviser. Is he still going to retain his job and pension at Imperial Collage?
Lets just wait and see.
He should be fined like everybody else and then sacked or stripped from his pension.
Peter: yes, but he’s now officially out of the public eye, so Furguson and his models won’t appear in the fake news again unless there is a public inquiry.
Lets just hope that if its true she gives him a dose of either herpes or vd. She sounds like a right slag but not as big a slag as Ferguson. He clearly knows theres no pandemic the piece of scum.
Maybe Ms Staat brought him some anti-covid-19 medicine and acknowledges to him she also understood it all is a terrible hoax, which will down half the worlds economies and brings misery to all the people suddenly without jobs, thanks to his advice to Boris Churchill.
Could it be she thanked him for his splendid advice?
Perhaps she told him she suddenly is “without a job”?
Time for this model professor to put before a public inquiry.