A man who died with Covid after refusing to be vaccinated made a "terrible mistake" which put his family at risk, his partner has said.Leslie Lawrenson, 58, died at his home in Bournemouth, Dorset, on 2 July.
His partner Amanda Mitchell, 56, who was seriously ill with Covid at the same time, said he thought the vaccines were too "experimental".
She told the
Stephen Nolan programme on BBC Radio 5 live: "I feel incredibly foolish. Les died unnecessarily."
Mr Lawrenson was a guitarist in a local band
Ms Mitchell said her partner, a Cambridge University graduate, decided against having a coronavirus jab after reading material on social media.
She said: "It was a daily thing that he said to us: 'You don't need to have it, you'll be fine, just be careful.'
"He said to me: 'It's a gene thing, an experimental thing. You're putting something in your body that hasn't been thoroughly tested.'
"Les was highly educated... so if he told me something, I tended to believe it."
