Sir Brian Langstaff, the unlikely hero of UK’s infected blood scandal

Sir Brian Langstaff: ‘This disaster was not an accident.’ Photograph: T Croggon/bigTimages

A lawyer might seem an unlikely hero, but for many infected blood victims that’s exactly how they see the author of the public inquiry’s damning final report, Sir Brian Langstaff.

The former high court judge was appointed chair of the infected blood inquiry on 8 February 2018, and has spent the intervening six years painstakingly gathering documents and evidence.