When we first reported the plight of former RAF service personnel known as squippers more than seven years ago, there were just a handful of cases.
Now, shockingly, the number of those who have fallen seriously ill has risen to more than 100. The alarm bells at the MoD should be going off right now and they should be doing everything they can to help with some urgency.
These veterans are people who went to their work every day in good faith, not knowing the lethal chemicals they handled could mean a death sentence. It is alarming that so many would go on to develop various cancers such non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, throat cancer and blood cancer by just doing their job.
