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

‘I want justice’: man whose brothers died in infected blood scandal awaits report

Christopher Marsh, 49, at his home in Ramsgate. He is standing in front of a red-brick house with a hanging basket of flowers behind him and a tall brick gatepost to one side. He has a short, tidy greying beard and a bald head, and is dressed smartly in a white shirt, pale green tie and navy blue waistcoat. He is looking straight at the camera without smiling and his eyes are narrowed as if he is facing the sun.
Christopher Marsh at his home in Ramsgate. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

“I lost both my brothers through it and I want to still be here, I want to see justice, I want to see it to the end,” says Christopher Marsh of the contaminated blood scandal.

Marsh, 49, and his two brothers, Gary and Kelvin, were all infected in 1981 through imported blood products used to treat people with haemophilia. Last year he was told his hepatitis C was no longer dormant and, with his brothers having long since died as a result of being infected, he is determined to see the end of the infected blood inquiry, which will publish its final report on 20 May, and the official response.

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