Memorial created at school where boys were infected with HIV and hepatitis

A new memorial has been unveiled to pay tribute to the Treloar Boys, who were given blood products infected with HIV and hepatitis while they were at school in the 1970s and 1980s (Andrew Matthews/PA) -

Boys who were infected with HIV and hepatitis when they were experimented on as schoolchildren have been recognised with a new memorial.

During the 1970s and 1980s, boys with the blood clotting disorder haemophilia were given experimental blood products while they attended the Lord Mayor’s Treloar’s College, a boarding school in Hampshire.