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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Andy Burnham: UK blood scandal may amount to corporate manslaughter

Andy Burnham
Burnham said the Department of Health had been ‘grossly negligent of the safety of people in the haemophilia community over five decades’. Photograph: James McCauley/Rex/Shutterstock

Andy Burnham has suggested there may be a case for charges of corporate manslaughter in relation to the contaminated blood scandal, as he challenged the Conservative leadership candidates to commit to making interim compensation payments to infected survivors.

The former health secretary, now mayor of Greater Manchester, wrote to each of the five remaining candidates on Friday to coincide with his evidence to the infected blood inquiry.

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