Gosport hospital deaths: when reputations override lives

The Gosport review casts a damning light on the inexcusable failings of public bodies, including medical and regulatory organisations and the police (Editorial, 21 June).Across our work on state-related deaths, we see the interests of powerful institutions and individuals prevailing over the access of bereaved people to the truth and accountability about how and why their relatives died.Evidence of systemic failings and human rights abuses is often only brought to light through the determination