Memorial created for schoolboys infected with HIV and hepatitis in blood scandal

2 hours ago 4

Rommie Analytics

EMBARGOED TO 1000 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 (left to right) Survivors Richard Warwick, Adrian Goodyear Steve Nicholls and Gary Webster, who founded the Independent Treloar's Memorial Committee, pose next to an Infected Blood memorial, a bronze statue of two boys on a stone plinth sculpted by Tom Murphy, outside Lord Mayor Treloar College in Alton, Hampshire. The memorial is being established at the boarding school in honour of the 122 haemophiliac boys treated there during the 1970s and 80s. Students at the school were infected with the deadly viruses HIV and/or Hepatitis C as a consequence of their treatment with contaminated blood products whilst pupils at the school, and subjected to unethical research, without any informed parental consent. Picture date: Wednesday September 16, 2026.
Multiple victims came forward for the statue unveiling (Picture: PA)

Boys who were infected with...

Read Entire Article