Blood scandal teens made pact to discover their killer
Mr Nicholls was diagnosed with haemophilia when he was one.
At the age of eight, in 1976, he started attending Treloar's school for children with disabilities, in Hampshire.'Really scared' But, the inquiry heard, only 16 were alive today and, among his group of friends, Mr Nicholls was the only survivor. He said:"It was my last year at a school when the first haemophiliacs were starting to die - and everyone was really scared."There were four or five of us in a room and we said, 'This is going to happen to us, we can see it.'
"We said, 'Right, we've stuck together right through our childhood. If it happens and it kicks off, we're going to rely on the person still alive to pursue it and find out why and what went wrong.'Mr Nicholls, from Surrey, said:"We're a tough bunch."To see your friends dying one by one, it's always in the back of your mind, 'I could be next.
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