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

Infected blood scandal: victims’ families call for action amid Post Office injustice

Campaigners hold placards in London calling for compensation for victims of the contaminated blood scandal.
Some 2,900 people are believed to have died between 1970 and 2019 after being given blood products that were contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

People affected by the contaminated blood scandal have called on ministers to also address their fight for compensation alongside government moves to fix the injustice suffered by sub-post office operators.

The ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office has led to public uproar over the hundreds of people who were wrongly convicted of alleged theft, fraud and false accounting based on the Post Office’s flawed Horizon IT system and action is being taken to look at ways of speedily quashing convictions and ensuring everyone is compensated.

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