The inquiry into the greatest treatment scandal in NHS history will report in May and victims, some as young as eight years old when they were infected, are hoping finally for justice.
It has taken decades, the loss of thousands of lives and an exhausting battle to have their harrowing, heartbreaking stories heard. Now the end is almost in sight. In just over three weeks, Sir Brian Langstaff will deliver his long-awaited report into the infected blood scandal. But for those who have suffered so much, there is still so much to fear.
She replied: 'In the present case, the government has not accepted that the infection of haemophiliacs with the AIDS virus - tragic as it is - was the result of negligence; or that we should depart from the view reached by the Pearson Committee when it rejected the arguments for some general scheme of no-fault compensation. 'I am, therefore, not clear precisely what question you envisage a special enquiry would be asked to examine.
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