Officials should face charges of corporate manslaughter over the deaths of up to 3,000 people due to contaminated blood, a judge has heard.
Former Health Secretary Andy Burnham was applauded by victims and relatives as he told a public inquiry: "I think the Department of Health, and the bodies for which it is responsible, have been grossly negligent of the safety of the haemophiliac community in this country. From there I would say there is even a possibility that the CPS should be asked to consider charges of corporate manslaughter."
He cited evidence of potential criminal offences, where victims had their diagnosis hidden from them for 17 years, and another where a teetotaller with liver disease was labelled "a chronic alcoholic" in medical notes.
