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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver

‘We were kids’: infected blood report welcomed by survivor of school trials

Richard Warwick wearing a suit and stripy tie, and two small pin badge, looking into the camera unsmiling. There is foliage in the background
Richard Warwick said the report into the scandal was the ‘culmination of 30 years of campaigning’. Photograph: Mark Thomas/REX/Shutterstock

A survivor of a school at the centre of the contaminated blood scandal where pupils were viewed as “cheaper than chimps” says he feels vindication by Monday’s report after decades of campaigning.

As a child Richard Warwick, 58, was infected with HIV and hepatitis C during experimental trials when he was pupil at Treloar’s college – a specialist school in Hampshire for haemophiliacs.

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