The daughter of an oil worker killed in a North Sea helicopter crash says she is sickened there has been no criminal prosecution into the disaster which claimed 16 lives.
A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is due to get under way next week almost five years after a Super Puma plunged into the water off the Aberdeenshire coast.
Many of the 14 passengers worked for KCA Deutag Drilling, including 57-year-old Raymond Doyle from Cumbernauld.
His family said they will attend every day of the inquiry in Aberdeen, which is expected to last around six weeks.
Mr Doyle’s 35-year-old daughter Lorraine said they do not expect to get any closure as a result of the inquiry, or justice for those who were killed as they returned from work offshore on April 1 2009.
“I’m sickened it’s an FAI and not a criminal prosecution. It felt like a massive kick in the teeth when we were told,” she said.
“They didn’t explain why it was an FAI, just that there wasn’t sufficient evidence for a prosecution, basically. Nothing will come of it. Recommendations will be made but they don’t even have to follow them.
“We just want justice for all the families.”
Ms Doyle will travel from Cumbernauld to the inquiry at Aberdeen Sheriff Court with her mother Wilma, sister Caroline and Mr Doyle’s brothers Tony and Neil.
The inquiry is scheduled to begin on Monday and will hear evidence on the circumstances of the crash.
The Super Puma AS332-L2 was returning from BP’s Miller platform when its main rotor gearbox suffered a “catastrophic failure”. The two crew and 14 passengers were killed.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the gearbox failure caused the helicopter’s main rotor to break away and its tail boom got severed from the fuselage.
Mother-of-one Ms Doyle said her family will never get over their loss.
“It never leaves you, especially at this time of year. We were robbed of him.
“It will be five years in April and we’re no further forward. Nobody has been held accountable. What a waste of 16 lives.”
Captain and co-pilot Paul Burnham, 31, from Methlick in Aberdeenshire, and Richard Menzies, 24, from Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, were killed along with Mr Doyle and 13 other workers.
Five men from Aberdeen died: Alex Dallas, 62, James Costello, 24, Stuart Wood, 27, Vernon Elrick, 41, and Brian Barkley, 30; and two workers were from Aberdeenshire: Leslie Taylor, 41, from Kintore, and Warren Mitchell, 38, from Oldmeldrum.
The other victims were David Rae, 63, from Dumfries; Gareth Hughes, 53, from Angus; Nairn Ferrier, 40, from Dundee; James Edwards, 33, from Liverpool; Nolan Goble, 34, from Norwich; and Mihails Zuravskis, 39, from Latvia.