With a cheery wave, Martyn Butler looked back at his pal in a hospital bed and said: “See you soon.”
He had no idea they would be his final words to Terry Higgins, who would die of AIDS-related illness on July 4, 1982.
The 37-year-old was one of the first people in Britain to lose his life to the immune deficiency syndrome that would shatter and traumatise the gay community in the 1980s.
