Infected blood scandal: ex-pupils and relatives sue Hampshire school

Survivors of the infected blood scandal outside the high court. Gary Webster (far left), the lead claimant of the group, said pupils were treated like ‘guinea pigs’. Photograph: Handout

A group of survivors and relatives of people who died in the infected blood scandal are suing a school where they contracted hepatitis and HIV after being given experimental treatment without informed consent.

A proposed group action lodged by Collins Solicitors in the high court on Friday alleges that Treloar College, a boarding school in Hampshire that specialised in teaching haemophiliacs, failed in its duty of care to these pupils in the 1970s and 80s.