Stephan Schmidheiny, former main shareholder of asbestos company Eternit Italia, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for the aggravated manslaughter of 392 asbestos victims in the town of Casale Monferrato in Italy. This result will inspire asbestos victims and anti-asbestos campaigners worldwide. It will strike fear in the hearts of those who profited...
The Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK, along with internationally recognised medical professionals, will meet with Cape to discuss our demand that Cape pay £10 million to medical research. As a goodwill gesture we have postponed our planned protests outside Cape’s Warrington and Rotherham offices on 19th April 2023, pending the outcome of the meeting. A...
Documents recently obtained by the Asbestos Victims Support Groups' Forum UK show that Cape, formerly a leading asbestos manufacturer, hid the true dangers of its deadly products in the 1960s and 1970s. Many died as a result. Cape fought (and lost) a legal battle to keep these documents from the public. The Forum is calling...
Phoenix House is a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) office in Barrow-in-Furness. The staff there have decades of experience in processing claims for industrial injuries benefits. The DWP has announced that this office will close, and that claims will now be processed by (already over-worked and under-trained) staff in an office in Barnsley, leaving...
On 30th September 2022, dozens of asbestos victims and anti-asbestos campaigners protested outside Cape offices in Rotherham and Warrington. The protests were called by the Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK. The Forum have obtained documents showing that Cape, formerly Cape Asbestos, hid the true dangers of its asbestos products in the 1960s and 1970s....
At 1pm on Friday 30th September 2022, the Asbestos Victims Supports Groups' Forum UK is holding protests outside Cape offices in Rotherham (Building 2 Fields End, Davey Road, S63 0JF) & Warrington (Unit 3F, Lyncastle Way, WA4 4ST). Documents obtained by the Forum show Cape hid the true dangers of its asbestos products in the 60s...
This new book, available now, is Eric’s story of his family tragedies, a family torn apart by the asbestos company where they lived. It is a very sad and poignant story of a family that worked, lived around and trusted the Eternit factory but who were ultimately betrayed. It is also a story of a remarkable...
Our 2022 Action Mesothelioma Day event was held at Lincoln Square in Manchester at 12 noon on Friday 1st July. 74 attended, mostly people affected by asbestos disease, along with trade unionists and anti-asbestos campaigners. Speeches were made by Rob Rayner of GMAVSG, Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Janet Newsham of the Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, and Mairead Dixon...
Our 2022 Action Mesothelioma Day event will be held at Lincoln Square (Manchester, M2 5LF) at 12 noon on Friday 1st July 2022. All welcome. Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer caused by asbestos. Action Mesothelioma Day is a day when we gather to remember all those who have lost their lives to asbestos disease, and...
Documents saved from destruction thanks to a court battle waged by the Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK (the Forum) will be vital to future asbestos compensation cases. The documents were obtained, after the Forum commenced court proceedings against Cape following the 2017 case of Concept 70 Limited v Cape Intermediate Holdings Limited (Cape). The documents provide...