A couple infected during the tainted blood scandal had to sign over more than half their home to get support payments. Bryan Walton was dying from Aids when he and his wife Clair, who contracted HIV from him, were ordered to give 58 per cent of their detached house to the now-defunct Macfarlane Trust. The correspondence is a startling example of the injustice faced by more than 7,500 patients infected with HIV and hepatitis at the hands of the NHS in the 1970s and 1980s. Theresa May is under growing pressure to put in place a fair scheme for victims infected with hepatitis C or HIV during the scandal – and for grieving families. The 57-year-old said the couple were desperate in 1989 when they called the Macfarlane Trust – one of a series of charitable organisations set up by the Government to provide support.

Source: Daily Mail May 20, 2019 23:48 UTC